> On May 26, 2017, at 9:14 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This fixes a seemingly severe memory leak in ipfix_send_template_msgs().
> This function was setting up a buffer with a stub, but only the first 4
> or 8 bytes of the stub were actually used because the "sizeof" call used
> to size it was actually getting the size of a pointer.  It never freed
> the buffer, leaking it.
> 
> Additionally, after this code sent a template message, it started over
> from the same undersized stub, leaking another block of memory.
> 
> This commit fixes both problems.
> 
> Found by Coverity.
> 
> CC: Romain Lenglet <[email protected]>
> Reported-at: 
> https://scan3.coverity.com/reports.htm#v16889/p10449/fileInstanceId=14762995&defectInstanceId=4304799&mergedDefectId=180398
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Justin Pettit <[email protected]>

Thanks for running through the Coverity reports and fixing all these issues!

--Justin


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