On 2016-03-14 20:09, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Aurelien Jarno, on Mon 14 Mar 2016 20:01:44 +0100, wrote: > > While this is definitely a bug, the leakage happens only once per > > nameserver and per program, and doesn't increase with the number of > > calls to getaddrinfo. Moreover it is actually useful to keep this > > information up to the end of the program and to avoid parsing > > /etc/resolv.conf multiple times. I am therefore decreasing the > > severity to minor. > > I believe glibc already has several of such behaviors, which are already > "suppress"ed by valgrind, so it'd be a matter of adding a suppression > entry for this?
valgrind calls __libc_freeres for deallocating the remaining memory. Unfortunately due to a bug in the libc, it doesn't work for this resource. We have a patch for that has been proposed on the mailing list, I'll add it for the next upload. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
