Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] memory leak in expert_set_info_vformat (epan/expert.c)

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From: LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:57:52 +0100
A tough one too...  No simple solution for this one.
It looks like there's no way to know if we have already allocated the
current one.
No hashing possible (we can have two different identical items).

I think we have to use ep_alloc instead of se_alloc  in
expert_set_info_vformat() and if needed copy the record in the
consumer (expert_tap).



On 2/13/06, didier <dgautheron@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
> Memory allocated with se_alloc is only freed in rescan_packets if
> redissect is true. So expert_info leaks memory rather quickly if you do
> a lot of filtering.
>
> Didier
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