[PATCH] Fix resource leak in resolver (bug 19257)

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Feb 9 13:00:00 GMT 2016


Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:

> On 02/09/2016 12:40 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> The number of currently defined nameservers is stored in ->nscount,
>> whereas ->_u._ext.nscount is set by __libc_res_nsend only after local
>> initializations.
>
> Is it possible to test this without a chroot?

I don't know how.  You need at least one IPv6 nameserver in
/etc/resolv.conf to trigger the leak.

Andreas.

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