Bug#533045: xserver-xorg: Mermory leak in Xorg

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 10:50 +0100, rob wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.4+3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Note: running Enlightenment E17 built from svn

[...]

> ==13275== 40,991,344 (40,747,328 direct, 244,016 indirect) bytes in 40,271
> blocks are definitely lost in loss record 229 of 229
> ==13275==    at 0x4C2391E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
> ==13275==    by 0x4F3505: Xcalloc (in /usr/bin/Xorg)
> ==13275==    by 0x433BB4: dixAllocatePrivate (in /usr/bin/Xorg)
> ==13275==    by 0x433C32: dixSetPrivate (in /usr/bin/Xorg)
> ==13275==    by 0x4CDE48: (within /usr/bin/Xorg)
> ==13275==    by 0x5321D3: (within /usr/bin/Xorg)
> ==13275==    by 0x442629: AllocARGBCursor (in /usr/bin/Xorg)
> ==13275==    by 0x52E83F: (within /usr/bin/Xorg)
> ==13275==    by 0x44D373: Dispatch (in /usr/bin/Xorg)
> ==13275==    by 0x43321C: main (in /usr/bin/Xorg)

This looks like a smoking gun, but the smoke is hiding the symbols. ;)

Can you install xserver-xorg-core-dbg and get another valgrind leak
report?

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22277 might be related.


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