** Description changed: - This message appears a lot as of a recent update to samba (Trusty - development branch): + [Impact] + + * Warning messages related to memory leaks "no talloc stackframe at" + are present at login and other PAM services when libpam-smbpass is + installed. + + * Backporting the fix resolves the warning messages and memory leak. + + * The upload incorporates the upstream fix from Samba. + + [Test Case] + + * On a Trusty 14.04 system: + 1. sudo apt-get install libpam-smbpass + 2. sudo passwd <user on the system> + 3. if bug is present in samba, then the output looks like: + + % sudo passwd <user> + no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4864, leaking memory + Enter new UNIX password: + + 4. After applying the updated packages the 'no talloc stackframe at' + message is no longer present during step 2. + + + [Regression Potential] + + * The changes are in the area of samba password authentication so it + would be worth exercising Samba client password manipulation. + + + [Original Description] + This message appears a lot as of a recent update to samba (Trusty development branch): no talloc stackframe at ../source3/param/loadparm.c:4831, leaking memory From this upstream bug report, I am lead to believe the issue is in libpam-smbpass, but I don't really know for sure. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728666 I am filing this bug report mainly so that I can refer to it on the testing tracker as an issue, while still setting the test case to pass. Note that other than the error message itself, I am not aware of any bad side effect. doug@v32-serv04:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty
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