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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: libnl - netlink library: Memory leak in address cache?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:27:17 +0100
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* Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com> 2007-12-11 06:52
> I think the leak comes from addr_msg_parser. The newly created address object gets added to the cache with nl_cache_add wich takes a reference, so the reference in addr_msg_parser should be dropped, e.g. the following patch might be correct:

That's correct, thanks for catching this.