Re: Turning on mem leak detection

[Lance Uyehara]

In nessusd 2.0.12 a leak can be fixed with the following patch: I suspect 
the same patch will be required in libnessus/arglists.c, but I haven't 
checked it yet.

==== nessus-core/nessusd/pluginscheduler.c#2 - 
nessus/nessus-core/nessusd/pluginscheduler.c ====
@@ -134,6 +134,15 @@
 nc->occurences = 1;
 nc->next = cache[h].next;
 nc->prev = NULL;
+
+ /*
+  * If we are doubling up on hashes be sure to fix the prev pointer! 
Otherwise
+  * cache_dec() won't work properly later.
+  */
+ if (cache[h].next != NULL) {
+  cache[h].next->prev = nc;
+ }
+
 cache[h].next = nc;

 return nc;
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