[patch] Fix BZ 19012 -- memory leak on error path in iconv_open
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Sep 28 13:53:00 GMT 2015
On 09/27/2015 11:22 PM, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> In order to expose the bug, a partial install (one missing
> iconvdata/SJIS.so) is required. I am not sure how to write such a test
> case (or even whether it is truly a bug to leak memory when faced with
> such a partial install).
What happens if you call iconv in a loop? Will the amount of memory
leaked remain bounded?
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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