Memory leaks in wpa_supplicant

[Daniele C.]

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Subject: Re: Memory leaks in wpa_supplicant
From: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com>
To: hostap at lists.shmoo.com
Date: Fri Mar 26 2010 13:19:19 GMT+0100 (CET)

>> I have enabled CONFIG_KMEMLEAK and I am finding some memory leakage
>> apparently caused by wpa_supplicant
> 
> CONFIG_KMEMLEAK is a feature from the Linux kernel, so there's no way that 
> wpa_supplicant can't be the culprit. It must be inside linux. The API between 
> userland and kernel should in a way that whatever an userland application 
> does, there shouldn't be a memleak inside the kernel.
> 
> You should raise the issue on the linux-wireless mailing list (see 
> http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html).
> 
> Maybe http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/Reporting_bugs is of 
> relevance to you as well.
> 
Thank you Holger for your kind reply; I had not understood correctly how that feature works, sorry for the noise.
I will report the issue to them.

Best regards,
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  Daniele

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