[tpop3d-discuss] Memory leak?

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:08:41PM -0700, Marc Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:20:45AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
    [...]
> > Cheers. I'll see if I can reproduce anything with my test
> > OpenLDAP installation.
> 
> I'm very interested to hear your results.  

OK, I've discovered a few SNAFUs; the following patch
ought to fix them:

diff -u -r1.5 auth_ldap.c
--- auth_ldap.c 2002/02/25 18:16:05     1.5
+++ auth_ldap.c 2002/05/09 20:08:45
@@ -341,11 +341,10 @@
                 group = xstrdup(*vals);
 
             ldap_value_free(vals);
+            ldap_memfree(attr);
         }
 
-        /* Do NOT need to free the ber, apparently-- ldap_next_attribute frees
-         * it when it returns NULL. */
-        if (attr) ldap_memfree(attr);
+        ber_free(ber, 0);
 
         /* Check that we've retrieved all the attributes we need. */
 #define GOT_ATTR(a)     if (ldapinfo.attr.##a && !a) { \
@@ -394,8 +393,11 @@
 
 fail:
     if (ldapres) ldap_msgfree(ldapres);
-/*    if (user_attr) ldap_msgfree(user_attr);*/
-    if (user_dn) free(user_dn);
+    
+    /* Ugly: force the LDAP library to free user_addr. */
+    while (ldap_next_entry(ldapinfo.ldap, ldapres));
+    
+    if (user_dn) ldap_memfree(user_dn);
 
     xfree(filter);
 

-- I could have sworn that the last documentation I read
told me that I'd got this right before.

I can't comment on the PAM trouble you're having, except
for my earlier snide comments about PAM itself. I shall
try to dig out a more recent RedHat machine to test it
on, but I can't see myself installing the PAM LDAP stuff.

You mentioned that you'd had some spurious failed
authentications. What error message is logged in these
cases?

-- 
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