From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
"J.Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
NFS <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH - libtirpc] Add authgss_free_private_data interface.
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:14:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511BF40E.1020704@RedHat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130205112309.1b0945ab@notabene.brown>
On 04/02/13 19:23, NeilBrown wrote:
> This is a necessary partner to authgss_get_private_data, so that
> the caller can free the data when needed (and not before).
>
> The previous practice of leaving the private data where it was resulted
> in authgss_destroy_context() attempting to destroy the context on the
> server which was incorrect, and fortunately fails for other reasons.
>
> An application which uses authgss_get_private_data() but does not call
> authgss_free_private_data() will be as correct as, or slightly more
> correct than, it was, but will suffer a slight memory leak.
>
> This patch is based on commit 07fce317cac267509b944a8191cafa8e49b5e328
> from librpcsecgss that was committed by Kevin Coffman.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Committed...
steved.
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