On Feb 14, 2009, at 4:07 AM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
>
>> I found a 64KB (DSIZ) memory leak in lib/content_encoding.c in the
>> zlib error handling code. I have attached a patch that addresses
>> the issue. Could it be committed upon review?
>
> It looks fine. I've committed it now,
>
>> Another item of interest: In the inflateInit2(z, -MAX_WBITS) !=
>> Z_OK case, the failure mode is to call process_zlib_error(conn, z)
>> instead of the exit_zlib(z, &k->zlib_init, process_zlib_error(conn,
>> z)) that is performed in the other failure modes in the same
>> function. Is there a technical reason for this that I am not
>> picking up on?
>
> I must agree with you that it looks like an oversight there. But
> doesn't this also result in a memory leak when inflateEnd() is never
> called?

My thoughts exactly! I have attached a patch that addresses this issue.

Cheers,
Andy

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