Particularly cleanly deinit() after a configuration check to clean up the
output of valgrind which reports "possible losses" without a deinit() and
does not with a deinit(), converting actual losses into proper hard losses
which makes the whole stuff easier to analyze.
As an example, given an example configuration of the following:
frontend foo
bind *:8080
mode http
Running `haproxy -c -f cfg` within valgrind will report 4 possible losses:
$ valgrind --leak-check=full ./haproxy -c -f ./example.cfg
==21219== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==21219== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==21219== Using Valgrind-3.11.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==21219== Command: ./haproxy -c -f ./example.cfg
==21219==
[WARNING] 165/001100 (21219) : config : missing timeouts for frontend 'foo'.
| While not properly invalid, you will certainly encounter various
problems
| with such a configuration. To fix this, please ensure that all
following
| timeouts are set to a non-zero value: 'client', 'connect', 'server'.
Warnings were found.
Configuration file is valid
==21219==
==21219== HEAP SUMMARY:
==21219== in use at exit: 1,436,631 bytes in 130 blocks
==21219== total heap usage: 153 allocs, 23 frees, 1,447,758 bytes
allocated
==21219==
==21219== 7 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 5 of 54
==21219== at 0x4C2DB8F: malloc (in
/usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==21219== by 0x5726489: strdup (strdup.c:42)
==21219== by 0x468FD9: bind_conf_alloc (listener.h:158)
==21219== by 0x468FD9: cfg_parse_listen (cfgparse-listen.c:557)
==21219== by 0x459DF3: readcfgfile (cfgparse.c:2167)
==21219== by 0x5056CD: init (haproxy.c:2021)
==21219== by 0x418232: main (haproxy.c:3121)
==21219==
==21219== 14 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 9 of 54
==21219== at 0x4C2DB8F: malloc (in
/usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==21219== by 0x5726489: strdup (strdup.c:42)
==21219== by 0x468F9B: bind_conf_alloc (listener.h:154)
==21219== by 0x468F9B: cfg_parse_listen (cfgparse-listen.c:557)
==21219== by 0x459DF3: readcfgfile (cfgparse.c:2167)
==21219== by 0x5056CD: init (haproxy.c:2021)
==21219== by 0x418232: main (haproxy.c:3121)
==21219==
==21219== 128 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 35 of 54
==21219== at 0x4C2FB55: calloc (in
/usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==21219== by 0x468F90: bind_conf_alloc (listener.h:152)
==21219== by 0x468F90: cfg_parse_listen (cfgparse-listen.c:557)
==21219== by 0x459DF3: readcfgfile (cfgparse.c:2167)
==21219== by 0x5056CD: init (haproxy.c:2021)
==21219== by 0x418232: main (haproxy.c:3121)
==21219==
==21219== 608 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 46 of 54
==21219== at 0x4C2FB55: calloc (in
/usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==21219== by 0x4B953A: create_listeners (listener.c:576)
==21219== by 0x4578F6: str2listener (cfgparse.c:192)
==21219== by 0x469039: cfg_parse_listen (cfgparse-listen.c:568)
==21219== by 0x459DF3: readcfgfile (cfgparse.c:2167)
==21219== by 0x5056CD: init (haproxy.c:2021)
==21219== by 0x418232: main (haproxy.c:3121)
==21219==
==21219== LEAK SUMMARY:
==21219== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==21219== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==21219== possibly lost: 757 bytes in 4 blocks
==21219== still reachable: 1,435,874 bytes in 126 blocks
==21219== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==21219== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not
shown.
==21219== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all
==21219==
==21219== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==21219== ERROR SUMMARY: 4 errors from 4 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
Re-running the same command with the patch applied will not report any
losses any more:
$ valgrind --leak-check=full ./haproxy -c -f ./example.cfg
==22124== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==22124== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==22124== Using Valgrind-3.11.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==22124== Command: ./haproxy -c -f ./example.cfg
==22124==
[WARNING] 165/001503 (22124) : config : missing timeouts for frontend 'foo'.
| While not properly invalid, you will certainly encounter various
problems
| with such a configuration. To fix this, please ensure that all
following
| timeouts are set to a non-zero value: 'client', 'connect', 'server'.
Warnings were found.
Configuration file is valid
==22124==
==22124== HEAP SUMMARY:
==22124== in use at exit: 313,864 bytes in 82 blocks
==22124== total heap usage: 153 allocs, 71 frees, 1,447,758 bytes
allocated
==22124==
==22124== LEAK SUMMARY:
==22124== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==22124== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==22124== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==22124== still reachable: 313,864 bytes in 82 blocks
==22124== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==22124== Reachable blocks (those to which a pointer was found) are not
shown.
==22124== To see them, rerun with: --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all
==22124==
==22124== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==22124== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
It might be worth investigating what exactly HAProxy does to lose pointers
to the start of those 4 memory areas and then to be able to still free them
during deinit(). If HAProxy is able to free them, they ideally should be
"still reachable" and not "possibly lost".
---
src/haproxy.c | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/haproxy.c b/src/haproxy.c
index 2250815b3..6548db6b5 100644
--- a/src/haproxy.c
+++ b/src/haproxy.c
@@ -2202,7 +2202,7 @@ static void init(int argc, char **argv)
if (pr || px) {
/* At least one peer or one listener has been found */
qfprintf(stdout, "Configuration file is valid\n");
- exit(0);
+ deinit_and_exit(0);
}
qfprintf(stdout, "Configuration file has no error but will not
start (no listener) => exit(2).\n");
exit(2);
@@ -3770,10 +3770,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
run_thread_poll_loop(0);
#endif
- /* Do some cleanup */
- deinit();
-
- exit(0);
+ deinit_and_exit(0);
}
#if defined(__clang_version__)
--
2.27.0
