Bug 1628839

Summary: polkit has a memory leak when reload auditd service
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Guoshuai Sun <sunguoshuai>
Component: polkitAssignee: Polkit Maintainers <polkit-devel>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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attechment is my testresult. none

Description Guoshuai Sun 2018-09-14 07:24:33 UTC
Created attachment 1483205 [details]
attechment is my testresult.

Description of problem:
The memory of polkit keep arise when I keep reload auditd service.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
polkit-0.112-14.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
Conditionally  recurrence

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Check the memory of polkit with "date && ps aux | grep polkit | grep -v grep"
2.run test.sh ,It's content is:
#!/bin/sh
while [ True ]
do
        systemctl reload auditd
done

3.About an hour later(or more time),check the memory again

Actual results:
The memory of polkit keep arise,and won't be reduce.

Expected results:
The memory of polkit should not keep arise too much.

Additional info:
attechment is my testresult.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2021-02-15 07:42:42 UTC
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.