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Re: [trinity-devel] Fix for a nasty memleak in knetworkmanager and a tiny improvement

From: François ANDRIOT <francois.andriot@...>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:45:48 +0100
Le 02/11/2011 23:54, Rapha�l Prevost a �crit :
>
> Hello,
>
> Here is some old patches I did for KDE 3.5 you may also be interested 
> in applying to Trinity, as they fix some annoying issues with 
> knetworkmanager.
>
> The first patch fixes a memory leak in dbus-1-qt3, which cause 
> knetworkmanager to leak about 4 megs/hour. Basically, the function 
> QDBusConnection::sendWithReply() encapsulates the reply with 
> QDBusMessage::fromDBusMessage(), the problem is 
> dbus_connection_send_with_reply_and_block() already dbus_message_ref() 
> the message, and QDBusMessage::fromDBusMessage() do it again. So, when 
> the QDBusMessage object is later destroyed, dbus_message_unref() is 
> called but the refcount is still at 1... so the message never get 
> free'd. I tried removing the _ref() from 
> QDBusMessage::fromDBusMessage(), but then knetworkmanager crashes, so 
> I guess some messages are actually copied using this function 
> somewhere else in the code. Simply using _unref() on the reply in 
> QDBusConnection::sendWithReply() before returning looks like the most 
> pragmatic solution.
>
> --- qdbusconnection.cpp 2008-06-06 02:35:56.000000000 +0800
> +++ qdbusconnection.cpp.new     2011-10-30 21:45:06.300981252 +0800
> @@ -285,7 +285,12 @@
>
>      dbus_message_unref(msg);
>
> -    return QDBusMessage::fromDBusMessage(reply);
> +    QDBusMessage mess = QDBusMessage::fromDBusMessage(reply);
> +
> +    /* XXX fromDbusMessage do a ref(), avoid leaking */
> +    dbus_message_unref(reply);
> +
> +    return mess;
>  }
>
>  void QDBusConnection::flush() const
>
> I have another patch to remove the very annoying lag when typing a WPA 
> passphrase in the "Add connection" wizard. The code is very bad, it 
> computes the hash of the passphrase every time the user inputs a 
> character, so typing is slow and laggy even on my i7 CPU. Here is a 
> fix to only compute the hash when the QLineEdit lose focus.
>
> patch -l -p0 
> knetworkmanager-connection_setting_wireless_security_widget.h <<'EOF'
> 143c143
> <                       void slotPSKChanged(const QString&);
> ---
> >                       void slotPSKChanged();
> EOF
> patch -l -p0 
> knetworkmanager-connection_setting_wireless_security_widget.cpp <<'EOF'
> 435c435
> <       connect(txtPSK, SIGNAL(textChanged(const QString&)), this, 
> SLOT(slotPSKChanged(const QString&)));
> ---
> >       connect(txtPSK, SIGNAL(lostFocus()), this, 
> SLOT(slotPSKChanged()));
> 439c439
> < WirelessSecurityWPAPSKImpl::slotPSKChanged(const QString& psk)
> ---
> > WirelessSecurityWPAPSKImpl::slotPSKChanged()
> 441d440
> <
> 443a443
> >         QString psk = txtPSK->text();
> EOF
>
> (sorry for the format, I didn't have the source tree at hand so copied 
> the last patch from my slackbuild)
>
> Regards,
>
> R.
>

Hello,
I adapted your patches to TDE 3.5.13, they are attached.
Alas, it seems that the dbus part (fix memory leak), when applied, makes 
knetworkmanager crash immediatly. at startup (on Fedora).
So I only applied the knetworkmanager part (fix wpa), it does not crash, 
but I did not test it (I do not use wifi).

Thanks
Francois Andriot


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