Description of problem: As shipped in RHEL5.3 cups-1.3.7-8 is compiled `with-lspp'. The lspp patch for scheduler/printers.c adds this code to cupsdSetPrinterAttrs(): printerfile = strstr(p->device_uri, "/dev/"); if (printerfile == NULL && (strncmp(p->device_uri, "file:/", 6) == 0)) printerfile = strdup(p->device_uri + strlen("file:/")); Note that in the first line printerfile is made to point into an existing string, and in the third line a *new* string is allocated with strdup() - and the code does *not* free it. Also note that this duplicated sub-string is wrong: It does not include the first `/'. A possible fix is to change the third line to: printerfile = p->device_uri + 5; Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.3.7-8 Steps to Reproduce: 1. In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf set: FileDevice Yes 2. Restart cups 3. lpadmin -p "Create Postscript file" -v file:/home/opher/dump.ps -m postscript.ppd.gz -E 4. In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf set: FileDevice No 5. Restart cups Additional info: I'm not sure when and where cupsdSetPrinterAttrs() is called and hence how much memory is leaking ... but this should be fixed. Also, if we're at it, my system (RHEL5) is installed with selinux *disabled* so every cups restart I get this: E [16/Apr/2009:01:35:08 +0300] cupsdSetPrinterAttrs: Unable to get printer context for every configured printer (225 printers currently) that have a device uri: file:/dev/null Could you check that selinux is enabled before you log the error? Regards, Opher.
Thanks for spotting this and reporting it.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0210.html