Re: [PATCH 3/4] logger: fix memory leaks [asan]

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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 08:31:27AM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
> On 16 September 2017 at 01:54, J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 09/15/2017 07:05 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 08:57:16PM +0100, Sami Kerola wrote:
> >>  The mem-leaks are bad thing in daemons, libs, libs tests, and
> >>  allocation in loop is dangerous, otherwise for command line utils you
> >>  waste time with this kind of free() calls, because kernel on exit()
> >>  will be faster to remove all the program from memory.
> >
> > Does this rule apply to the free() calls in hwclock.c?
> 
> What I was trying to to achieve was as few ASAN failures as possible.
> That makes seeing memory corruptions, buffer overflows and other
> things that do matter easier. Maybe adding supressions is good
> enough way to deal the rest.
> 
> https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerLeakSanitizer
> 
> Thank you Karel making my patches better. Here's what I can still
> see:
> 
> https://pastebin.com/raw/U4CSUrxS

Fixed. Thanks!

 Karel

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