[Genome] memory leaks in cartCheckout
Adam Wenocur
wenocur at genome.chop.edu
Sun May 6 20:21:12 PDT 2007
Hi all,
I was recently poking around the heap of the genome browser CGI
executables, and I noticed some peculiarities.
Upon further inspection, I found that the cartCheckout function in
kent/src/hg/lib/cart.c is the source of some memory leaks:
Instead of calling freeHash, cartCheckout should call
freeHashAndVals, since the values loaded into the cart are cloned
strings, and are otherwise orphaned.
There is the possibility that this solution might break the use of
cart parameter strings that were not copied prior to checking out the
cart, however it seems not to have caused any ill effect on my genome
browser mirror.
A second issue doesn't appear to be causing leaks, but may have the
potential to: cartCheckout should use cartDbFreeList instead
cartDbFree, since userInfo and sessionInfo are indirectly assigned by
cartDbLoadWhere in cartNew, and could point to linked lists.
I'm aware that this isn't of great importance to the CGI binaries,
since cartCheckout is usually called shortly before a program exits,
but I figure it couldn't hurt to note my observations.
-Adam
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