Re: Possible memory leaks in libnetutil

[Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>]

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On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:01:15 +0200 or thereabouts "Luis MartinGarcia."
<luis.mgarc () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Valgrind also showed possible memory leaks in libnetutil. I haven't
> look at this in detail but I think there should be a way to avoid the
> valgrind warnings like:
[...]
> The thing is that getinterfaces() caches the list of interfaces so
> subsequent calls don't have to use dnet or do ioctl() calls again. I
> guess getsysroutes() does something similar. However, it may be nice
> to provide some helpers or modify the functions in some way so we can
> free() any allocated memory and avoid the warnings.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Luis MartinGarcia.


Hi Luis,

You didn't show the command you were running.  This certainly wouldn't
be the first memory leak either but are you running Nmap with
- --release-memory?  About a year ago I was tracking down a few memory
leaks that turned went away with the --release-memory option.

Regards,

Brandon

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