hush - memory leak?

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 21 20:21:14 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Denys Vlasenko
<vda.linux at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Piotr Grudzinski <piotr at powersmiths.com> wrote:
>> The email seems to disappeared. Here is what I sent:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> With BB 1.18.1 on NOMMU system and using hush (all .config is attached) I am
>> running the following command:
>>
>> # while true; do free; done
>>
>> The free memory goes done and system becomes unstable - various processes
>> are being killed by the kernel.This happens when the "Standalone shell"
>> option is selected. BB 1.17.4 with the same option selected worked fine.
>> FEATURE_CLEAN_UP is selected.
>
> My investigation shows that there is a bug in FEATURE_CLEAN_UP-enabled
> code is hush.

Here is the fix:

http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.18.1/busybox-1.18.1-hush.patch

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