Comment # 4
on bug 9323
from Michael Mann
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > It appears the issue is that the format_text* functions in strutil.c have a
> > small array of buffers that are used as a circular queue to store/return the
> > "converted" string. These are allocated on "first use", but since they're
> > static variables in the function, are never freed.
> >
> > Evan,
> > Thoughts?
>
> Not the issue in this bug? Asking valgrind for more information gives:
Still worthy of fixing?
>
> ==7729== Uninitialised value was created by a heap allocation
> ==7729== at 0x4C2A2DB: malloc (in
> /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
> ==7729== by 0x9551DC0: g_malloc (gmem.c:104)
> ==7729== by 0x4E3E223: buffer_init (buffer.c:35)
> ==7729== by 0x4E4693B: wtap_open_offline (file_access.c:551)
> ==7729== by 0x413693: cf_open (tshark.c:3853)
> ==7729== by 0x40AE2A: main (tshark.c:1930)
>
> So I think this is probably at least a partial duplicate of bug #9292... I
> will dig a little further.
I thought about that too after the fact, but at least this capture only has 1
frame, so hopefully the issue is easier to spot.
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