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Bug 1178247

Summary:	irqbalance memory leak
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	David van de Meer <dieskim>
Component:	irqbalance	Assignee:	Petr Holasek <pholasek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Andrej Manduch <amanduch>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.6	CC:	dhoward, emcnabb, jeder, mnavrati
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	irqbalance-1.0.7-2.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Prior to this update, the /sys/bus/pci/devices file handle was not freed properly if the directory was not available. As a consequence, a memory leak occurred. With this update, the file handle is freed as expected when irqbalance cannot open the directory, and memory leaks no longer occur in the described situation.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-07-22 06:11:42 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Description David van de Meer 2015-01-03 04:00:37 UTC

Irqbalance contains a bug in 1.0.4 which causes a memory leak on systems where /sys/bus/pci/devices is not available, such as on some virtual machines. The problem has been filed and a solution is available from irqbalance by simply updating to the latest version of irqbalance - v1.0.8 

https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/issues/13 [^]

The issue was resolved upstream but the patch does not apply to 1.0.4:
https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/commit/699deffdd881bf4759f3fcc4d6ee3e018e4c266e [^]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 06:11:42 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1279.html