[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#709335: Bug#709335: libvirtd memory leakage

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 03:23:24PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
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> 
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> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:12:02 +0100 Horst Schirmeier
> <horst at schirmeier.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Horst Schirmeier wrote:
> >> We're seeing this on x86-64 Wheezy with the libvirt backports version
> >> (currently 1.2.9-9~bpo70+1), too.  A virt-manager client was attached
> >> several days, ramping up libvirtd memory usage (RES) to >8GB.
> >>
> >> The workaround (restarting libvirtd) helped.
> >
> >PS: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netcf/+bug/1201938> may
> >be related.  There, the netcf package was identified as the culprit, and
> >patched successfully.
> >
> >--
> >PGP-Key 0xD40E0E7A
> 
> As per the launchpad bug, the leak is in the netcf package, and that
> bug has been fixed in netcf version 0.1.9-2 in Wheezy.

Are you sure about this? The debian/changelog for 0.1.9-2 in wheezy
reads as:

netcf (0.1.9-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add debug package (Closes: #650817)
  * Link against libnl rather than libnl-3 (Closes: #651033)
    - debian/control - fix dependencies
    - Don't apply first two patches

 -- Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>  Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:20:49 -0600

but the netcf-debian-memleak.patch patch was added separately in Ubuntu. It
though should be present in a later version:

netcf (1:0.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * netcf-debian-memleak.patch: prevent a memory leak when listing
    interfaces

 -- Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:58:20 +0000

AFAICS.

Regards,
Salvatore