Bug 171844 - libblkid from e2fsprogs leaks memory
Bug#: 171844 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: base-system@gentoo.org Reported By: andrej.filipcic@ijs.si
Component: Applications
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Summary: libblkid from e2fsprogs leaks memory
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2007-03-22 20:21 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-03-22 20:21 0000 
There is a huge memory leak in rpc.mountd with nfs-utils-1.0.12. The relevant
bug is described in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413661 and
it turned out it is really a leak in libblkid.so.1 of e2fsprogs package which
is used now by nfs-utils-1.0.12.
After a day, the rpc.mountd mem usage grows to serveral GBytes (on heavy nfs
servers).

nfs-utils-1.0.12 should be hard masked until the appropriate patch is applied
to e2fsprogs.

------- Comment #1 From SpanKY 2007-03-24 08:42:56 0000 ------- 
umm, i dont think so ... you fix the source of the problem, not random packages
that are affected by the actual problem

------- Comment #2 From SpanKY 2007-03-24 08:52:34 0000 ------- 
added the fix from upstream e2fsprogs repo to 1.39-r2:
http://thunk.org/hg/e2fsprogs/?cs=5a2a75111d7a;style=raw

------- Comment #3 From Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-03-24 09:02:38 0000 ------- 
*** Bug 172014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

------- Comment #4 From SpanKY 2007-05-02 18:42:54 0000 ------- 
*** Bug 176063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***