deallocation in gnutls_*_deinit?

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Wed Jun 30 17:27:44 CEST 2010


On 06/30/2010 04:36 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>>   Hi
>>
>> Newbie question here:
>>
>> According to valgrind and the source then for example gnutls_hash_init
>> and gnutls_cipher_init does a gnutls_malloc, but the corresponding
>> _deinit apparently doesn't free it.
>>
>> The documentation doesn't mention anything, and I would thus expect
>> gnutls_hash_deinit&  friends to do the necessary gnutls_free.
>>
>> What have I missed?
>>
>> Should I explicitly call gnutls_free after gnutls_*_deinit?
>
> No you shouldn't. It's a bug. Thank you for reporting it. I corrected it at:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git;a=commitdiff;h=75ed7cb709d949f012afff73e4728889e0e65681

Thanks.

What do you recommend: Should I implement a workaround for 2.10.0 (and 
how?) or should I require 2.10.1? Is there a planned/estimated data of a 
release?

/Mads




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