Sorry but Tim Hudson said me the answer previously, so now I know what's the problem. Thanks.
2008/9/11 Darryl Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > nicolas sitbon wrote: > >> Hi, I'm currently developping an application using libcrypto, I find some >> memory leak with valgrind (please don't say me to compile with -DPURIFY, I >> know that and in fact, my problem is not uninitialized data, but rather >> memory leak) : >> >> ==26823== 1,552 (168 direct, 1,384 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are >> definitely lost in loss record 1 of 2 >> ==26823== at 0x4C22FAB: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207) >> ==26823== by 0x40ACB2: CRYPTO_malloc (in /home/nicolas/admkey) >> ==26823== by 0x41CBBA: RSA_new_method (in /home/nicolas/admkey) >> ==26823== by 0x41CECC: rsa_cb (in /home/nicolas/admkey) >> > ...SNIP... > > ==26823== 1,384 bytes in 16 blocks are indirectly lost in loss record 2 of >> 2 >> ==26823== at 0x4C22FAB: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207) >> ==26823== by 0x40ACB2: CRYPTO_malloc (in /home/nicolas/admkey) >> ==26823== by 0x413F37: BN_new (in /home/nicolas/admkey) >> > ...SNIP... > >> >> I call PEM_read_RSAPrivateKey() as you can see >> > > And did you get a valid "RSA *" object returned ? > > Did you call "RSA_free()" with that returned object (before starting your > cleanup) ? > > If this proves to be the issue: The OpenSSL library cleanup is there to > clean up objects that have been created for internal use within the library. > Many of these objects do not come into direct use by application code > during normal running, so there is a clear case for OpenSSL cleanup code > "undoing" what it did in this regard. Objects which the application created > and held onto are not managed in the same way, the application is expected > to manage their lifecycle and explicitly call their respective destruction > functions. > > > I've also downloaded the latest snapshot, > >> but it seems that this problem is not currently fix. >> I have also check in the documentation of PEM_read_RSAPrivateKey(), but >> nothing says how to free this memory. >> > > Since it is an "RSA *" then did you try "man RSA_free" ? > > > Darryl > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org > Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] >