[krbdev.mit.edu #5233] Change in behaviour in gss_release_buffer() by mechtypes introduces memory leak
Ezra Peisach via RT
rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Fri Dec 29 17:05:55 EST 2006
Sam Hartman via RT wrote:
> Note that callers should not be releasing buffers that they allocated.
> So I think we need only be consistent within our implementation and
> within mechanisms that plug into our implementation.
>
>
Exactly.... The mechanism interface has changed the implementation
requirements. The release_buffer is not passed down to the mech
specific handlers. So - self consistency in the implementation would
now require a change in the k5sealv3.c code...
Ezra
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