[sr-dev] memory leak in memcached module

Hello, there is (still) a memory leak in memcached module, discovered on a report by Dragos Oancea. The pkg usage logs are like: 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: 19010. N address=0x7fb23683bc98 frag=0x7fb23683bc68 size=8 used=1 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: alloc'd from memcached: ../../parser/../ut.h: pkg_str_dup(733) 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: 19011. N address=0x7fb23683bd00 frag=0x7fb23683bcd0 size=48 used=1 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: alloc'd from memcached: memcached.c: mcd_malloc(127) 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: 19012. N address=0x7fb23683bd90 frag=0x7fb23683bd60 size=8 used=1 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: alloc'd from memcached: ../../parser/../ut.h: pkg_str_dup(733) 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: 19013. N address=0x7fb23683bdf8 frag=0x7fb23683bdc8 size=48 used=1 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: alloc'd from memcached: memcached.c: mcd_malloc(127) 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: 19014. N address=0x7fb23683be88 frag=0x7fb23683be58 size=8 used=1 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: alloc'd from memcached: memcached.c: mcd_malloc(127) 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: 19015. N address=0x7fb23683bef0 frag=0x7fb23683bec0 size=16 used=1 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: alloc'd from memcached: ../../parser/../ut.h: pkg_str_dup(733) 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: 19016. N address=0x7fb23683bf60 frag=0x7fb23683bf30 size=8 used=1 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: alloc'd from memcached: memcached.c: mcd_malloc(127) 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: 19017. N address=0x7fb23683bfc8 frag=0x7fb23683bf98 size=24 used=1 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: alloc'd from memcached: ../../parser/../ut.h: pkg_str_dup(733) 0(24328) NOTICE: qm_status: start check=f0f0f0f0, end check= c0c0c0c0, abcdefed The one related to pkg_str_dup() should be fixed by the commit: - http://git.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/sip-router/?a=commit;h=6faf126… The other one is related to mcd_malloc(), which I guess it is due to the function that returns the value from memchache, memcached_get() used in pv_get_mcd_value_helper() -- the returned object has to be freed by calling code, according to: - http://docs.libmemcached.org/memcached_get.html Since the libmemcached was initialized with wrappers around pkg malloc/free, I expect the respective free function has to be used to free the result. Can any of memcached devs check my commit and investigate further the second leak? Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel-Constantin Mierla - http://www.asipto.com http://twitter.com/#!/miconda - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda Kamailio Advanced Trainings - Berlin, Nov 25-28; Miami, Nov 18-20, 2013 - more details about Kamailio trainings at http://www.asipto.com -