[Click] minor Hub bug
Ian Rose
ianrose at eecs.harvard.edu
Fri Jul 24 14:53:52 EDT 2009
Hello,
I have a simple Hub element bug to report, but I'm not sure what the
proper avenue for that is...
Synposis: Hub will memory leak if used with only 1 input/output pair.
Here is a configuration that will demonstrate the problem:
> FromDump(<some big pcap file>, STOP true)
> -> cnt::Counter
> -> hub::Hub
> -> Print("hub output 0 (should never happen)")
> -> Discard;
>
> DriverManager(pause,
> read cnt.count,
> print "exitting in 10s",
> wait 10,
> print "goodbye");
Once you see "exitting in 10s", go check the process' memory footprint
and it should be quite large. If you add a second input/output pair to
the Hub element in this configuration, the problem should disappear.
Here is a proposed patch:
> --- click-1.7.0rc1/elements/standard/hub.cc 2009-03-05 21:10:15.000000000 -0500
> +++ hub.cc 2009-07-24 14:44:41.236995000 -0400
> @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
> if (q)
> output(i).push(q);
> }
> +
> + if (n == 0) p->kill();
> }
>
> CLICK_ENDDECLS
cheers,
Ian
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