Bug 541810 – sys-auth/polkit patch to stop memory leak seen in kde/powerdevil

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeremy Sermersheim 2015-03-01 15:07:14 UTC]

Running kde I'm seeing a pretty massive memory leak in kde related to power management.  Disabling power management in kde stops the leak and the following bug and subsequent polkit patch corroborates my issue:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271934#c121
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=f4d71e0de885010494b8b0b8d62ca910011d7544

Can we get polkit bumped with that one line patch included?


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeremy Sermersheim 2015-03-01 23:12:57 UTC]

Created attachment 397830 [details, diff]
polkit memory leak patch

After placing the above patch in /etc/portage/patches/sys-auth/polkit-0.112-r2, enabling the epatch_user functionality globally using /etc/portage/bashrc, emerge -1 sys-auth/polkit, and finally rebooting, the memory leak is gone.  I've also noticed other distros have applied this same patch.

The 'kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]' process hovers around 17M vs multiple G.

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2015-03-04 23:34:05 UTC]

Do not copy arch teams on bugs.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2015-07-04 13:25:55 UTC]

0.113 should fix this