On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:53:07AM +0800, Payphone LIOU wrote: > Hi, linux-nfs : > > in nfs-utils1.1.3, procedure "get_exportlist()" would malloc() some > memory for storing the directories and groups for "showmount". > obviously those memory are not released when the procedure ends. > once mountd received a signal for quiting itself(eg : kill -9 `pidof > mountd`), it will call "killer()" for some exiting-works. but those > memory allocated in "get_exportlist()" were not released. memory > leak? i am not sure. :-( You're talking about the allocation done on this line?: e = (struct exportnode *) xmalloc(sizeof(*e)); >From a quick glance, it looks like the code tries to free that up the next time get_exportlist() is called, in that first loop over elist. I haven't tried to figure out whether that code's correct, though; maybe you have? Patches always welcome. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
