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<H1>Re: [dev] Memory access violations and leaks</H1>
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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Henning Meier-Geinitz (<A HREF="mailto:henning@meier-geinitz.de?Subject=Re:%20[dev]%20Memory%20access%20violations%20and%20leaks&In-Reply-To=&lt;20010508210216.D8948@vortex.swb.de&gt;"><EM>henning@meier-geinitz.de</EM></A>)<BR>
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Hi,
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<P>On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:06:56PM +0200, abel deuring wrote:
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<EM>&gt; I don't think that this is a memory leak:
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<P>The mtrace program just looks if the memory is freed explicitely
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before exiting. If it's allocated only once and not again with every
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call of an often called functionthere is no real need to fix this.
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<P>On the other hand it's not that complicated in the case of the
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sane_get_devices() function so I think we should fix it there.
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<P><EM>&gt; num_alloced is a static variable, initialized to zero, fd_info is a
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<EM>&gt; static variable too, hence malloc is only called during the first call
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<EM>&gt; of sanei_scsi_open[_extended]. A corresponding call to free is indeed
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<EM>&gt; missing, but since the memory block pointed to by fd_info should be
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<EM>&gt; available during the entire program run time, we would need to put this
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<EM>&gt; into an exit handler function.
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<P>If it's to complicated, don't do it.
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<P><EM>&gt; But fd_info is not properly initialized. I'm quite surprised that this
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<EM>&gt; did not cause problems...
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<P>Quite often we find errors we are not searching for :-)
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<P>Bye,
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&nbsp;&nbsp;Henning
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