# HG changeset patch # User Markus Bröker # Date 1239878953 -7200 # Node ID a7ba10b6891545b4a207fb0d729856c867f30f64 # Parent 9609c54a54d3bea53d25fb05f5ff7baa760f8f2d getpwnam_error.c: * The memory hole can be fixed with two different approaches 1) Change /etc/nsswitch.conf: passwd: compat to passwd: files 2) LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libnss_compat.so.2 valgrind ./getpwnam_error GLIBC loads libnss_compat on the fly and unloads it. Thanks to telexicon for reporting this... committer: Markus Bröker diff --git a/getpwnam_error.c b/getpwnam_error.c --- a/getpwnam_error.c +++ b/getpwnam_error.c @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ ==7531== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks. */ +/* + * LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libnss_compat.so.2 valgrind --leak-check=full \ + * ./getpwnam_error + * fixes it - Many thanks to telexicon for reporting this... + * + */ + int main (int argc, char **argv) { struct passwd *pwd;