[libnice] Memory leaks

Miguel París Díaz mparisdiaz at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 10:09:58 PDT 2015


I supposed it and agree with Olivier, so we can verify that there are
memory leaks into libnice v01.10, isn't it?

2015-04-25 18:48 GMT+02:00 Olivier Crête <olivier.crete at collabora.com>:

>
>
> On April 25, 2015 11:58:04 AM EDT, "Miguel París Díaz" <
> mparisdiaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hello, I am not doing nice_agent_remove_stream(), it is needed in
> >v0.1.10
> >even if the NiceAgent is released?
> >Moreover, using the same code with v0.1.7 there is not any memory leak
> >detected by valgrind.
>
> It shouldn't be needed.
>
> Olivier
>
>
> >2015-04-24 11:58 GMT+02:00 Philip Withnall <philip at tecnocode.co.uk>:
> >
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 19:15 +0200, Miguel París Díaz wrote:
> >> > Hello again,
> >> >
> >> > I have run valgrind again with debug symbol and this is the output
> >for
> >> > libnice v0.1.10:
> >>
> >> Thanks, that is a bit more useful. I have omitted all but the
> >relevant
> >> parts below.
> >>
> >> > nice_agent_gather_candidates
> >> > ==12303== 688 (80 direct, 608 indirect) bytes in 2 blocks are
> >> > definitely lost in loss record 8,233 of 8,519
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA6A8E1E: discovery_add_local_host_candidate
> >> > (discovery.c:563)
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA69F7C2: nice_agent_gather_candidates
> >(agent.c:2737)
> >>
> >> > ==12303== 528 (208 direct, 320 indirect) bytes in 2 blocks are
> >> > definitely lost in loss record 8,131 of 8,519
> >> *snip*
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA6B26F1: nice_tcp_active_socket_new
> >> > (tcp-active.c:106)
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA6A8DFE: discovery_add_local_host_candidate
> >> > (discovery.c:561)
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA69F7C2: nice_agent_gather_candidates
> >(agent.c:2737)
> >>
> >> > nice_agent_add_stream
> >> > ==12303== 144 bytes in 2 blocks are possibly lost in loss record
> >7,624
> >> > of 8,519
> >> *snip*
> >> > ==12303==    by 0x792F40B: g_cancellable_source_new
> >> > (in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0.4200.1)
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA697CB1: component_new (component.c:150)
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA6A1EDF: stream_new (stream.c:68)
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA69B49F: nice_agent_add_stream (agent.c:2361)
> >> > ==12303==    by 0xA27F6B5: kms_webrtc_base_connection_configure
> >> > (kmswebrtcbaseconnection.c:35)
> >>
> >> All of these traces look related, but I cannot fix them without
> >checking
> >> a few things first. I have fixed a number of leaks like this before,
> >and
> >> typically the problem is actually that the GMainContext still has
> >> pending events when it is stopped. This means one or more GSources
> >are
> >> kept alive. In libnice, this generally means an associated GSocket is
> >> also kept alive, which is what is leaking above.
> >>
> >> Are you absolutely sure that:
> >>  • your test code is not leaking a NiceAgent;
> >>  • your test code is not leaking a stream (use
> >> nice_agent_remove_stream()); and
> >>  • there are no pending events left in your GMainContexts when they
> >are
> >> stopped or destroyed (and that they are actually destroyed).
> >>
> >> > I cannot reproduce the memory leak that I reported some days ago
> >about
> >> > g_source_set_dummy_callback. But I have searched for it into
> >libnice
> >> > code, and I have found this entries:
> >>
> >> This is related: that also is a GSource which is not getting freed
> >> somewhere.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Philip
> >>
> >> > 2015-04-15 13:08 GMT+02:00 Miguel París Díaz
> ><mparisdiaz at gmail.com>:
> >> >         Yes, you are right, sorry for not sending a complete
> >report.
> >> >
> >> >         I will do it when I can and send the report again ;).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >         2015-04-13 16:32 GMT+02:00 Philip Withnall
> >> >         <philip at tecnocode.co.uk>:
> >> >                 Hi,
> >> >
> >> >                 On Mon, 2015-04-13 at 13:10 +0200, Miguel París
> >Díaz
> >> >                 wrote:
> >> >                 > Hello,
> >> >                 >
> >> >                 > I have tested my system with valgrind and I have
> >> >                 seen some memory
> >> >                 > leaks into libnice v0.1.10.
> >> >                 > Valgind does not detect any memory leak running
> >the
> >> >                 same tests with
> >> >                 > v0.1.7.
> >> >                 >
> >> >                 > I hope this can help you to fix them ;).
> >> >
> >> >                 Not really, without the necessary debug symbols
> >> >                 (replacing the ‘???’
> >> >                 entries in the stack traces below).
> >> >
> >> >                 Can you please install the debug info package for
> >your
> >> >                 distribution for
> >> >                 libnice, or recompile it with debug symbols
> >enabled;
> >> >                 then produce a new
> >> >                 set of leak traces with valgrind?
> >> >
> >> >                 Thanks,
> >> >                 Philip
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >         --
> >> >         Miguel París Díaz
> >> >
> >>
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >         Computer/Software engineer.
> >> >         Researcher and architect in http://www.kurento.org
> >> >         http://twitter.com/mparisdiaz
> >> >
> >>
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Miguel París Díaz
> >> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > Computer/Software engineer.
> >> > Researcher and architect in http://www.kurento.org
> >> > http://twitter.com/mparisdiaz
> >> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
> --
> Olivier Crête
> olivier.crete at collabora.com
>



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Miguel París Díaz
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Researcher and architect in http://www.kurento.org
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