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Date:      Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:30:52 +0100
From:      Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To:        Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memory leak in inflate.c
Message-ID:  <20050315193052.GA74516@stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20050314214352.02af2827.molter@tin.it>
References:  <E40595640FD457418D8F9005C2BEC8496456D0@mvebe001.americas.nokia.com> <20050314214352.02af2827.molter@tin.it>

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On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:43:52PM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 <Vijay.Singh@nokia.com> wrote:
> > Hi, I am trying to debug a memory leak in executing gzipped binaries
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > when the parameter list is too long. The function in question is
> > inflate_dynamic().=20
>
> _If_ I remember correctly, if inflate_dynamic() returns a non-zero
> code it means that the decompression failed and the program itself
> quits right away, no memory leak. Or am I missing something?

Your missing something: /usr/src/sys/kern/inflate.c ;-)

Looks like a good patch to me.

Marc

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