[Openswan Users] pluto memory leak?

[Ales Klok]

Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> Paul Wouters пишет:
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>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
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>>> I see that my linux router free ram decreases every day, so I have to
>>> reboot it every 5-6 months.
>>> When I do ps ax I see that pluto size is increased:
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>>> Now this is openswan 2.4.7 and kernel 2.4.34
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>> There is a known memory leak when retrying conenctions with a bad
>> configuration (eg wrong PSK or PSK vs RSA auth).
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> Hmm. I think that I have no problems in configuration.
> It is possible that some links are not stable, can this results in
> memory leaks?
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Definitely. I'm using openswan 2.4.6 on kernel 2.6.15 with 12 tunnels. 
One of my locations is connected via wireless ISP and have permanent 
link problems. Within one month pluto eat about 90Megs. I tried to 
disable this connection in openswan and so far looks like leak is gone. 
I'll try to recompile openswan with -DLEAK_DETECTIVE as Paul suggested.
/ak