Greetings,
I have a hopefully very simple question, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated…
In my app, basically doing the following, using gssglue/gssapi with gssapi_krb5. In my app:
OM_uint32 major = gss_import_name();
if (major == GSS_S_COMPLETE)
{
major = gss_acquire_cred();
gss_release_name();
}
I'm testing error handling when gssapi_krb5.so is missing (being dynamically loaded by GSS). I find that gss_import_name succeeds (always returns GSS_S_COMPLETE). I happen to be getting GSS_S_BAD_MECH from gss_acquire_cred. Regardless whether gss_acquire_cred succeeds or fails, I always call gss_release_name to avoid memory leakage. In this scenario, gss_release_name segfaults.
FYI, I'm working in Ubuntu 6.06 (libgssapi-dev 0.7-0ubuntu1). Having a little trouble determining the corresponding source version, so I apologize for that.
Basically, what's the recommended usage here? Is there any reason to *not* call gss_release_name? I see a shared object debug message from somewhere within gss_import_name, so I would normally expect it to fail, and use that to know whether to later release or not. Do I only release if gss_acquire_cred succeeds, maybe?
Otherwise, no problems. Just can't figure out the recommended usage here…. Any suggestions would be wonderful!
Regards,
- Matthew
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