https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4141
Summary: Reassemble.c leaks memory for GLIB > 2.8
Product: Wireshark
Version: SVN
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: Normal
Priority: Medium
Component: Wireshark
AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx
Build Information:
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> It appears that there are one or two related memory leaks
> associated with reloading a file and having to do with defragmentation
> in reassemble.c
>
> Basically: during fragment_table_init & reassembled_table_init:
> a. fragment_data structs in the "fd lists" pointed to from the
> fragment_tables and reassembled_tables hashes are not freed;
> b. fragment_key structs pointed to from the fragment_tables hash are
> not freed.
>
> The code using GMemChunks freed these structs in reassemble_cleanup
> using g_mem_chunk_destroy.
> This hasn't worked since GLib 2.10 when g_mem_chunk_destroy stopped
> actually freeing memory.
>
> (Using g_slice doesn't change things since the code assumes that
> the structs can be but need not be freed individually).
>
> The lossage: mostly fragment_data_structs:
> 32-bytes * number_of_fragments_in_a_capture.
>
> Using se_alloc for these structs isn't the right answer
> because currently se_free_all is being called *before* the loop
> through all the dissector "registered init" fcns.
> (Also: fragment_key structs sometimes are individually freed).
>
>
> I'm leaning towards the following:
> Free the fragment_data structs and etc in fragment_table_init
> and reassembled_table_init (similar to fragment_delete).
> (One has to be careful about doing so
> for the reassembled_table since an fd-chain can/will appear
> multiple times in the reassembled hash).
> Also note that currently for free_all_reassembled_fragments()
> that the 'key_arg' points to se_alloc'd memory which has already
> been freed.
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