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Description of problem: memory leak: 25,830 bytes in 315 blocks are definitely lost Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ipmitool-1.8.11-11.el6.i686 How reproducible: deterministic Steps to Reproduce: 1. valgrind --leak-check=full --log-file=valgrind.log ipmitool -I lanplus -H <> -U USERID -P PASSW0RD sol activate 2.# generate some traffic on the serial console on the PowerEdge machine (e.g. cat /var/log/messages; dmesg; while true; do yes; done; ...) # kill (gently, with sigint or sigterm) the ipmitool 3. check valgrind.log Actual results: ==14834== LEAK SUMMARY: ==14834== definitely lost: 27,852 bytes in 339 blocks ==14834== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==14834== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==14834== still reachable: 452 bytes in 8 blocks ==14834== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==14834== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not shown. ==14834== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-reachable=yes ==14834== ==14834== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==14834== Use --track-origins=yes to see where uninitialised values come from ==14834== ERROR SUMMARY: 1166606 errors from 124 contexts (suppressed: 37 from 10) Expected results: no memory leak Additional info:
Created attachment 519005 [details] memory leak see the whole valgrind output
Looks like bug #576004, fixed in RHEL 5.6.
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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. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1603.html