Bug 82858 – libtar-1.2.11 has a memory leak

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description S.Caglar Onur 2005-02-21 11:39:26 UTC]

libtar-1.2.11 has a memory leak, attached patch and ebuild solves this problem...

[Comment 1 S.Caglar Onur 2005-02-21 11:40:50 UTC]

Created attachment 51803 [details, diff]
libtar-1.2.11.ebuild.diff

New ebuild...

[Comment 2 S.Caglar Onur 2005-02-21 11:41:16 UTC]

Created attachment 51804 [details, diff]
libtar-1.2.11.patch

Memory leak patch...

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-02-22 15:02:34 UTC]

did you make this patch ?  if not, where did it come from ?

has it been sent upstream ?

[Comment 4 S.Caglar Onur 2005-02-23 00:02:14 UTC]

Per Lid

[Comment 5 S.Caglar Onur 2005-02-23 00:02:14 UTC]

Per Lidén [http://www.fukt.bth.se/~per/] wrote this patch, i found it on one of the mailing lists, but not sure which [ saw in a google search ].

I don't know is it send or not to the upstream, but libtar seems me a dead project without a activity for a while [ https://lists.feep.net:8080/pipermail/libtar/index.html ]

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-02-28 16:01:00 UTC]

only thing about the patch that i noticed after a quick scan is that it isnt thread safe (sticking the memory issues into a func-local static buffer like that is bad for threads)

added it to 1.2.11-r1 ... if you feel like fixing up the patch properly, feel free to re-open :)

[Comment 7 S.Caglar Onur 2005-03-01 22:55:00 UTC]

I'll be try whenever i found some free-time ( maybe on weekend )