Bug#818178: libc6: getaddrinfo/freeadrinfo memory leak

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Aurelien Jarno, on Mon 14 Mar 2016 20:01:44 +0100, wrote:
> While this is definitely a bug, the leakage happens only once per
> nameserver and per program, and doesn't increase with the number of
> calls to getaddrinfo. Moreover it is actually useful to keep this
> information up to the end of the program and to avoid parsing
> /etc/resolv.conf multiple times. I am therefore decreasing the
> severity to minor.

I believe glibc already has several of such behaviors, which are already
"suppress"ed by valgrind, so it'd be a matter of adding a suppression
entry for this?

Samuel