(racoon 660) Re: memory leaks in racoon?

Shoichi Sakane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.ipv6.kame.racoon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I asked to some persons if the patch is effective or not.  A guy reported
there was still memory leak after the patch was applied.  However, I found
out this patch was effective for memory leak of using HMAC function.  
I have checked it and merged to our repository.  

Thank you for this report.


> Hi,
>          This patch does not seem to be in the current CVS and 
> snapshot.  Is this not considered as a correct fix ?
> 
>          ---Mike
> 
> 
> At 11:21 AM 02/08/2004, Ganesan R wrote:
> > >>>>> "Vijay" == Vijay  <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > I also faced the same issue with the some ssl version previous to
> > > openssl-0.9.7l using openssl-0.9.7l solved the problem.
> >
> > > I think some hash functions have memory leak..
> >
> >It did turn out to be a problem because of not calling HMAC_cleanup() after
> >HMAC_Final() in crypto_openssl.c. The attached patch fixes the leak for me.
> >
> >Ganesan
> >
>
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