This bug report is now very old, but is this bug still present? Here is why I ask.
Running valgrind on a C program - a program that I adapted from someone else - showed a lot of possible leaks. But I learnt from this the present bug report to do 'snd_config_update_free_global()'. Having done that, I see - only - the following. ================================================================ $ valgrind --leak-check=yes --show-reachable=no ./volume_exec ==683808== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==683808== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==683808== Using Valgrind-3.15.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==683808== Command: ./volume_exec ==683808== ==683808== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==683808== at 0x51A1565: pa_shm_cleanup (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-13.99.so) ==683808== by 0x51A17A1: pa_shm_create_rw (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-13.99.so) ==683808== by 0x51914B6: pa_mempool_new (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-13.99.so) ==683808== by 0x51169B1: pa_context_new_with_proplist (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0.21.2) ==683808== by 0x484B2B6: conf_pulse_hook_load_if_running (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so) ==683808== by 0x48A50DD: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0) ==683808== by 0x48A5544: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0) ==683808== by 0x48A5F21: snd_config_searcha_hooks (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0) ==683808== by 0x48A6010: snd_config_searchva_hooks (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0) ==683808== by 0x48A611A: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0) ==683808== by 0x48A48F5: snd_config_search_definition (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0) ==683808== by 0x48AF17D: ??? (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0) ==683808== x==683808== ==683808== HEAP SUMMARY: ==683808== in use at exit: 78,125 bytes in 194 blocks ==683808== total heap usage: 6,002 allocs, 5,808 frees, 743,291 bytes allocated ==683808== ==683808== LEAK SUMMARY: ==683808== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==683808== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==683808== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==683808== still reachable: 78,125 bytes in 194 blocks ==683808== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==683808== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown. ==683808== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all ==683808== ==683808== Use --track-origins=yes to see where uninitialised values come from ==683808== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s ==683808== ERROR SUMMARY: 2 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0) ================================================================ Does that output indicate a problem? I libasound2-dev:amd64 (1.2.2-2.1ubuntu2.5) (on Linux Mint 20.3). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017375 Title: memory leaks in libasound2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/1017375/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs