Bug 1310738 – Memory leak in EnumerateActions call results handler (polkit_authority_enumerate_actions_finish) causes massive memory leak in KDE

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Bug 1310738 - Memory leak in EnumerateActions call results handler (polkit_authority_enumerate_actions_finish) causes massive memory leak in KDE

Summary:	Memory leak in EnumerateActions call results handler (polkit_authority_enumer...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	polkit (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Miloslav Trmač
QA Contact:	Stefan Kremen
Docs Contact:	Maxim Svistunov

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Keywords:	ZStream

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Blocks:	1337047
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Reported:	2016-02-22 10:13 EST by Alan Matsuoka
Modified:	2016-11-04 03:55 EDT (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:	polkit-0.112-7.el7
Doc Type:	Release Note
Doc Text:	Programs no longer run out of memory when repeatedly listing available polkit actions Previously, the polkit client library did not correctly free memory when listing available actions, which could cause programs to run out of memory and terminate. With this update, the library frees the memory correctly, and programs no longer crash in this scenario.
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Last Closed:	2016-11-04 03:55:31 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2016:2529	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	polkit bug fix update	2016-11-03 10:16:52 EDT

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Description Alan Matsuoka 2016-02-22 10:13:55 EST

Description of problem:
There is a memory leak in EnumerateActions call results handler that causes KDE 
to leak massive amounts of memory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

polkit-0.112-6.el7_2

How reproducible:
User reported slow machine. After checking we noticed KDE was consuming 60% of the available memory.

dhws018# ps auxwf | grep -e kde
wao      30489  0.0 59.0 16842380 9454440 ?    Sl   Oct09   2:40 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start kde 
2. memory will start to grow over a couple of days
3.

Actual results:

KDE will us up over 60% of available memory

Expected results:
no memory leak.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271934#c130


Additional info:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88288

Comment 1 Mark Ostroski 2016-04-13 16:48:16 EDT

This is already fixed for fedora: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1180886

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 03:55:31 EDT

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-2016-2529.html

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