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From: "Aryeh Katz" <aryeh@vasco.com>
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:41:19 -0400
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Subject: Re: Memory leak in experimental module - mod_case_filter_in
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Please ignore. I didn't look at the heap_create code carefully.
Sorry.

> I was looking over mod_case_filter_in for some pointers on filter
> handling, and I noticed there was a memory leak in CaseFilterInFilter
> (line 149). Since apr_bucket_heap_create doesn't specify a free
> function, apr_bucket_heap_make will allocate h->base, and copy the
> data (buf) there. The buf allocated through malloc (in
> CaseFilterInFilter) never gets freed, and will leak the amount of data
> read through ap_bucket_read on every request. Since this is just an
> experimental module it's no big deal, but it probably pays to clean
> this up. Aryeh --- Aryeh Katz VASCO 			 www.vasco.com		
> 


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Aryeh Katz
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