[Commotion-dev] Serval memory leaks

[Dan Staples]

At the international summit for community wireless networks last month,
we noticed on the Commotion network we set up that the Serval daemon,
and one of our own programs which uses the Serval library, were using up
an awful lot of memory and leading to OOM conditions in which the
routers rebooted periodically.

I noticed today, as I've been debugging our code that uses the Serval
library, that Valgrind reports quite a bit of leaked memory from a
single call to both keyring_open and keyring_enter_pin. 527,056 bytes
lost memory to be exact, stemming from malloc and calloc calls in those
functions. Perhaps this is our problem?

This was seen with both 0.90 and 0.91. I can send Valgrind output if
that would be helpful.

Dan

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