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Re: [microblaze-uclinux] munmap of non-mmaped memory by process



> 
> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 16:23 -0500, Steven J. Magnani wrote:
> 
> > Are you running ftpd? There is a buffer overrun bug in the petalinux
> > version of ftpd that causes this symptom. It's fixed in the latest
> > version of inetutils.
> 
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

> > 
> Steven,
>    If only it was that simple.  I wish I was running ftpd, but alas,
> I'm not.  Is this a sign of a memory leak in our app?  

Yes, but only to the extent that it's the result of calling free() with a 
pointer that didn't come back from malloc().

> I'm going to work at putting top or something on the embedded linux 
> so I can watch the RAM usage on our app.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Torin Ford
> Software Engineer
> nextScan, Inc.


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