Public bug reported: On artful (glibc 2.26-0ubuntu2) Valgrind reports a memory leak for the attached example program:
==25343== 4,096 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 7 of 7 ==25343== at 0x4C2FB0F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==25343== by 0x5A39647: ??? ==25343== by 0x5A4C279: ??? ==25343== by 0x5A5811C: ??? ==25343== by 0x4F355DE: gaih_inet.constprop.7 (getaddrinfo.c:790) ==25343== by 0x4F375C6: getaddrinfo (getaddrinfo.c:2304) ==25343== by 0x108795: main (in /tmp/getaddrinfo) This issue is reported with both the Valgrind version shipped with artful as well as with the latest development version. Note that the development version of Valgrind does not report a leak on Debian 9 (glibc 2.24-11+deb9u1). ** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "getaddrinfo.c" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1740569/+attachment/5028961/+files/getaddrinfo.c -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1740569 Title: Memory leak in getaddrinfo() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1740569/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs