[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 166362] New: data discarded by probes is leaked

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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166362
 GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | Ver: HEAD CVS

           Summary: data discarded by probes is leaked
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: HEAD CVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: Urgent
         Component: gstreamer (core)
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: t.i.m at zen.co.uk
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
                CC: all-bugs at bugzilla.gnome.org


When you have a probe hooked up to a pad, and the probe callback returns FALSE,
the data is not to be sent on and is to be discarded.

While the data is actually not processed any further when a probe callback
returns FALSE, the data is never actually freed.

This causes massive memory leaks in a pipeline of mine (about 500MB/sec).

Test program to demonstrate the bug attached.

Patch to fix the problem attached as well (however, note added FIXME in
gst_pad_pull() - I'm not 100% sure if it needs to be freed there as well).

Cheers 
 -Tim

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