This means, we stay with the unbalanced memory allocation in (Perl) libloc. Which leaves a memory leak.

> Gesendet: Samstag, 07. November 2020 um 19:47 Uhr
> Von: "Stefan Schantl" <stefan.schantl(a)ipfire.org>
> An: development(a)lists.ipfire.org
> Betreff: [PATCH 1/5] location-functions.pl: Use a single script-wide db_handle.
>
> Create and use a single script-wide database handle for libloc to
> prevent from creating multiple ones.
>
> This helps saving memory, especially on small systems.
>
> Reference #12515.
>

The error can be produced easily with small memory, but it is present in all systems.
Therefore I've posted this solution as work-around only!

- Bernhard


> Signed-off-by: Stefan Schantl <stefan.schantl(a)ipfire.org>
> ---
>  config/cfgroot/location-functions.pl | 11 ++++-------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/config/cfgroot/location-functions.pl b/config/cfgroot/location-functions.pl
> index 2cfe7f908..9b1d0bfb5 100644
> --- a/config/cfgroot/location-functions.pl
> +++ b/config/cfgroot/location-functions.pl
> @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ our $keyfile = "$location_dir/signing-key.pem";
>  # Directory which contains the exported databases.
>  our $xt_geoip_db_directory = "/usr/share/xt_geoip/";
>
> +# Create libloc database handle.
> +my $db_handle = &init();
> +
>  #
>  ## Tiny function to init the location database.
>  #
> @@ -86,7 +89,7 @@ sub verify ($) {
>  ## Function to the the country code of a given address.
>  #
>  sub lookup_country_code($$) {
> -	my ($db_handle, $address) = @_;
> +	my ($address) = @_;
>
>  	# Lookup the given address.
>  	my $country_code = &Location::lookup_country_code($db_handle, $address);
> @@ -174,9 +177,6 @@ sub get_full_country_name($) {
>
>  # Function to get all available locations.
>  sub get_locations() {
> -	# Create libloc database handle.
> -	my $db_handle = &init();
> -
>  	# Get locations which are stored in the location database.
>  	my @database_locations = &Location::database_countries($db_handle);
>
> @@ -197,9 +197,6 @@ sub address_has_flags($) {
>  	# Array to store the flags of the address.
>  	my @flags;
>
> -	# Init libloc database handle.
> -	my $db_handle = &init();
> -
>  	# Loop through the hash of possible network flags.
>  	foreach my $flag (keys(%network_flags)) {
>  		# Check if the address has the current flag.
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>