Looks like you called ENGINE_new(). Did you do a corresponding call to ENGINE_free()?
> [[email protected] - Tue Dec 23 09:07:34 2008]: > > Greetings, > I used OPENSSL in a project and it is leading to memory leak. Although > this is not significantly harmful, I believe that there should be a > function that can free all allocated memory before the application > quits. I tried all the functions that were suggested in the FAQ and > the memory leak is still reported. > The functions that I tried for freeing this memory are: > CONF_modules_free(); > ERR_remove_state(0); > > > ENGINE_cleanup(); > CONF_modules_unload(1); > > ERR_free_strings(); > EVP_cleanup(); > CRYPTO_cleanup_all_ex_data(); > > And still the memory leak is reported. > > I am using openssl-0.9.8e. > > The memory leak is traced to: ENGINE_new in libcrypto > 276 bytes in 7 blocks are still reachable in loss record 1 of 1 > at 0x40204E5: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/x86- > linux/vgpreload_memcheck.so) > by 0x43CEF0B: (within /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8) > by 0x43CF5A3: CRYPTO_malloc (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8) > by 0x442B58D: ENGINE_new (in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8) > by 0x408FF8F: (below main) (in /lib/i686/libc-2.6.1.so) > > Is this a known issue, or is there any other function that can be > used to free memory before the application quits? > > Thanks, > Huzaifa > > -- Richard Levitte [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
