#21788: Very small memory leak with --verify-config ------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: Jigsaw52 | Owner: Jigsaw52 Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Very Low | Milestone: Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version: Tor: unspecified Severity: Trivial | Keywords: memory leak Actual Points: | Parent ID: Points: | Reviewer: Sponsor: | ------------------------------+------------------------------ When tor is run with the flag --verify-config, there is a memory leak of 45 bytes. Although the leak is insignificant, not leaking any memory helps testing the configuration related code against memory leaks.
This leak is due to clean_up_backtrace_handler not being called during tor shutdown process. I believe the fix is calling it inside tor_free_all. I will post a link to a branch with my proposed fix. Valgrind log: {{{ user@lubuntu:~/Desktop/tor$ valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all /usr/local/bin/tor --verify-config ==19135== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==19135== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==19135== Using Valgrind-3.12.0.SVN and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==19135== Command: /usr/local/bin/tor --verify-config ==19135== Mar 20 00:59:33.916 [notice] Tor 0.3.1.0-alpha-dev (git-411736a13250586c) running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2g and Zlib 1.2.8. Mar 20 00:59:34.005 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning Mar 20 00:59:34.008 [notice] This version is not a stable Tor release. Expect more bugs than usual. Mar 20 00:59:34.036 [notice] Read configuration file "/usr/local/etc/tor/torrc". Configuration was valid ==19135== ==19135== HEAP SUMMARY: ==19135== in use at exit: 45 bytes in 1 blocks ==19135== total heap usage: 8,709 allocs, 8,708 frees, 460,735 bytes allocated ==19135== ==19135== 45 bytes in 1 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 1 ==19135== at 0x4C2CB3F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind /vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so) ==19135== by 0x61CBB4F: __vasprintf_chk (vasprintf_chk.c:80) ==19135== by 0x2669F3: vasprintf (stdio2.h:210) ==19135== by 0x2669F3: tor_vasprintf (compat.c:539) ==19135== by 0x2669F3: tor_asprintf (compat.c:516) ==19135== by 0x2657E1: configure_backtrace_handler (backtrace.c:232) ==19135== by 0x1556AF: tor_main (main.c:3609) ==19135== by 0x14F238: main (tor_main.c:34) ==19135== ==19135== LEAK SUMMARY: ==19135== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==19135== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==19135== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==19135== still reachable: 45 bytes in 1 blocks ==19135== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==19135== ==19135== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==19135== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0) }}} -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21788> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online _______________________________________________ tor-bugs mailing list tor-bugs@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-bugs