[mapserver-dev] 5.2.0 memory leaks?

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Mon Jul 14 20:25:13 EDT 2008


http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2702

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> This patch looks like it might fix the leak below. I will also make a 
> ticket for it and attach the patch. I does solve the problem I was 
> experiencing, but I'm not sure if this is complete or even the correct 
> way to do this.
> 
> -Steve W
> 
> 
> woodbri at carto:~/work/precache3/mapserver-5.2.0-rc1$ diff -uN 
> maplayer.c-orig maplayer.c
> --- maplayer.c-orig     2008-02-28 19:02:49.000000000 -0500
> +++ maplayer.c  2008-07-14 18:57:18.000000000 -0400
> @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@
>  */
>  void msLayerClose(layerObj *layer)
>  {
> +  int i;
>    /* no need for items once the layer is closed */
>    msLayerFreeItemInfo(layer);
>    if(layer->items) {
> @@ -178,6 +179,18 @@
>      layer->items = NULL;
>      layer->numitems = 0;
>    }
> +  for (i=0; i<layer->numclasses; i++) {
> +    if ( layer->class[i]->expression.items ) {
> +      msFreeCharArray(layer->class[i]->expression.items, 
> layer->class[i]->expression.numitems);
> +      layer->class[i]->expression.items = NULL;
> +      layer->class[i]->expression.numitems = 0;
> +    }
> +    if ( layer->class[i]->expression.indexes ) {
> +      msFree(layer->class[i]->expression.indexes);
> +      layer->class[i]->expression.indexes = NULL;
> +    }
> +  }
> +
> 
>    if (layer->vtable) {
>      layer->vtable->LayerClose(layer);
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> Steve,
>>
>> FYI, I just downloaded gd-2.0.36RC1.tar.gz and this leak appears to be 
>> fixed in this new code.  So the only leaks left would be mapserver leaks:
>>
>> ==26531==
>> ==26531== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 3 from 1)
>> ==26531== malloc/free: in use at exit: 90 bytes in 9 blocks.
>> ==26531== malloc/free: 294,249 allocs, 294,240 frees, 269,637,193 
>> bytes allocated.
>> ==26531== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
>> ==26531== searching for pointers to 9 not-freed blocks.
>> ==26531== checked 6,932,464 bytes.
>> ==26531==
>> ==26531== 24 bytes in 3 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 2 of 3
>> ==26531==    at 0x4A18DA3: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
>> ==26531==    by 0x420F21: msLayerWhichItems (maplayer.c:440)
>> ==26531==    by 0x423A8D: msDrawVectorLayer (mapdraw.c:841)
>> ==26531==    by 0x4236C4: msDrawLayer (mapdraw.c:738)
>> ==26531==    by 0x4232F3: msDrawMap (mapdraw.c:441)
>> ==26531==    by 0x40A818: main (genimages.c:1148)
>> ==26531==
>> ==26531==
>> ==26531== 66 (48 direct, 18 indirect) bytes in 3 blocks are definitely 
>> lost in loss record 3 of 3
>> ==26531==    at 0x4A1A362: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:279)
>> ==26531==    by 0x420F00: msLayerWhichItems (maplayer.c:435)
>> ==26531==    by 0x423A8D: msDrawVectorLayer (mapdraw.c:841)
>> ==26531==    by 0x4236C4: msDrawLayer (mapdraw.c:738)
>> ==26531==    by 0x4232F3: msDrawMap (mapdraw.c:441)
>> ==26531==    by 0x40A818: main (genimages.c:1148)
>> ==26531==
>> ==26531== LEAK SUMMARY:
>> ==26531==    definitely lost: 72 bytes in 6 blocks.
>> ==26531==    indirectly lost: 18 bytes in 3 blocks.
>> ==26531==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>> ==26531==    still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>> ==26531==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>> ==26531== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are 
>> not shown.
>> ==26531== To see them, rerun with: --show-reachable=yes
>>
>> -Steve W
>>
>> Steve Lime wrote:
>>> Have run against 5.0? If they're there in that version too then I'm 
>>> not worried about
>>> this for this release. My guess is that these are not new leaks.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>>>> On 7/13/2008 at 12:13 AM, in message 
>>>>>> <48798F14.1070801 at swoodbridge.com>,
>>> Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>>>> Steve L,
>>>>
>>>> I have been playing around with a test program to generate some 
>>>> images. It was some mapscript that I wanted to see if I could get 
>>>> working as a C program calling the mapserver library calls.
>>>>
>>>> This run was based on mapserver-5.2.0-beta2 and it looks like we 
>>>> have some memory leaks in the mapserver code. It is also possible 
>>>> that I mis-used the library, but these seem to be pretty deep in 
>>>> mapserver and I'm not trying to do anything fancy.
>>>>
>>>> I'll check the same run against RC1, but I guess my generic question 
>>>> is how much check has been done with valgrind. This run only 
>>>> generates two images, but if I wanted to generate lots more this 
>>>> could be serious. In fact, I think I've seen php/mapscript 
>>>> precache2.php run into a leak where the process kept growing and 
>>>> finally died and had to be restarted.
>>>>
>>>> -Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ==5821== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 3 from 1)
>>>> ==5821== malloc/free: in use at exit: 7,724 bytes in 29 blocks.
>>>> ==5821== malloc/free: 337,243 allocs, 337,214 frees, 121,668,226 
>>>> bytes allocated.
>>>> ==5821== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v
>>>> ==5821== searching for pointers to 29 not-freed blocks.
>>>> ==5821== checked 15,450,752 bytes.
>>>> ==5821==
>>>> ==5821== 24 bytes in 3 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 5 
>>>> of 15
>>>> ==5821==    at 0x4A18DA3: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x4276A1: msLayerWhichItems (maplayer.c:440)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x42A20D: msDrawVectorLayer (mapdraw.c:841)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x429E44: msDrawLayer (mapdraw.c:738)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x429A73: msDrawMap (mapdraw.c:441)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x40E67E: main (genimages.c:1112)
>>>> ==5821==
>>>> ==5821==
>>>> ==5821== 24 bytes in 4 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 6 
>>>> of 15
>>>> ==5821==    at 0x4A18DA3: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:149)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x4B35D78: gdMalloc (in /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.33)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x4B33830: (within /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.33)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x4B336DB: gdImageCreatePaletteFromTrueColor (in 
>>>> /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.33)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x43ACED: msImageCreateWithPaletteGD (mapgd.c:3441)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x43B022: msSaveImageGDCtx (mapgd.c:3576)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x43AE2F: msSaveImageGD (mapgd.c:3495)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x4437A8: msSaveImageAGG (mapagg.cpp:2216)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x41ACB4: msSaveImage (maputil.c:657)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x40E6B4: main (genimages.c:1120)
>>>> ==5821==
>>>> ==5821==
>>>> ==5821== 66 (48 direct, 18 indirect) bytes in 3 blocks are 
>>>> definitely lost in loss record 11 of 15
>>>> ==5821==    at 0x4A1A362: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:279)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x427680: msLayerWhichItems (maplayer.c:435)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x42A20D: msDrawVectorLayer (mapdraw.c:841)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x429E44: msDrawLayer (mapdraw.c:738)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x429A73: msDrawMap (mapdraw.c:441)
>>>> ==5821==    by 0x40E67E: main (genimages.c:1112)
>>>> ==5821==
>>>> ==5821== LEAK SUMMARY:
>>>> ==5821==    definitely lost: 96 bytes in 10 blocks.
>>>> ==5821==    indirectly lost: 18 bytes in 3 blocks.
>>>> ==5821==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>>>> ==5821==    still reachable: 7,610 bytes in 16 blocks.
>>>> ==5821==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
>>>> ==5821== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are 
>>>> not shown.
>>>> ==5821== To see them, rerun with: --show-reachable=yes
>>>>
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