Re: Memory Leak in Audisp-Plugin

Monday, 19 July 2021

Hello,

Adding linux-audit back to the reply.

On Monday, July 19, 2021 7:45:02 PM EDT you wrote:
...
 Audit version is 2.3.2(It's old I know, but can't change
that), 
This is so old that its virtually unsupported. It was released 8 years ago.

...
 and I don't have any valgrind output, I left the auditd service
status on
 and saw memory utilisation after few days and Audisp-Plugin (.py file) was
 consuming alot of memory.

 I didn't try valgrind, would that be helpful in identifying the problem? 
Yes, that is the standard goto tool for memory leaks. Although, its harder to 
diagnose when python is involved.

...
 And also can you share any patches on this in audit files or py files
or in
 code related to audisp/auparse folders(in repo). 
This is the history of the python bindings:
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/commits/master/bindings/
python/auparse_python.c

...
 As the next versions of audit doesn't have this issue,  
You mean 2.3.3?

...
 I'm sure that you can find some patch which deals with this
issue. 
Take a look through the history. One of them does it. I think one might even 
mention memory leak.

-Steve

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