* Re: [PATCH - libtirpc] Add authgss_free_private_data interface.
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@ 2013-02-13 20:14 ` Steve Dickson
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From: Steve Dickson @ 2013-02-13 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: NeilBrown; +Cc: Chuck Lever, J.Bruce Fields, Myklebust, Trond, NFS
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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