Re: [xml] Memory Leak in xmlParseElementChildrenContentDecl

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:07:13PM +0530, Ashwin wrote:
> 
>    Hi,
> 
>     >   There   seems   to   be   a   memory   leak   in   the   function
>    xmlParseElementChildrenContentDecl  (libxml  release 28). When I parse
>    the attached document using any of the > >  Api's provided for DOM/Sax
>    with  purify  a  memory  leak is shown for the memory allocated at the
>    following location in function xmlNewDocElementContent
> 
>    >  ret = (xmlElementContentPtr) xmlMalloc(sizeof(xmlElementContent));
> 
>    >   The  memory  allocated for b in the attached document is not being
>    freed.
> 
>     > <!ELEMENT aElement (a |b * >
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>              I  think  the  addition of the following code should fix the
>    problem, added in parser.c at line no 5335
> 
>    if ((last != NULL) && (last != ret))
> 
>                   xmlFreeDocElementContent(ctxt->myDoc, last);
> 
>    Please confirm that it is correct

  Yes, you are right. I tested the problem when I got your report
but didn't had time to check the fix, this looks right, I commited this in
SVN and added the patch to the regressions tests,

  thanks a lot !

Daniel

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