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Re: memory leak in krb5_get_init_creds_keytab in 1.10.2 ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Aug 25 16:10:03 2014

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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:09:48 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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On 08/25/2014 03:05 PM, Markus Moeller wrote:
> I call krb5_get_init_creds_keytab in my application and  valgrind tells me 
> about a leak ( see below ) . It seems to be the memory allocation for 
> mod-modreq_p, which I think I can't clear from my application, can I ?

I believe this is issue #7793:

  http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7793

which is fixed in 1.12.2.  In that issue, the per-request preauth
context is only leaked when krb5_get_init_creds_keytab fails.  If you're
seeing a memory leak when it succeeds, further investigation might be
needed.
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