[Bug 1291373] Re: wget. memory leaks

[Jes Bodi Klinke]

The following patch to wget 1.13.4-2ubuntu1.4 eliminates most of the
leaks, except the one in  CRYPTO_malloc which may be due to a memory
leak in the opensll library.

diff -r wget-1.13.4/src/http.c wget-1.13.4-jbk/src/http.c
2288c2288
<               if (tmp)
---
>               if (tmp) {
2289a2290,2291
>               free(tmp);
>               }
diff -r wget-1.13.4/src/retr.c wget-1.13.4-jbk/src/retr.c
291a292
>             free(line);
293a295
>                   char *line = fd_read_line(fd);
295c297
<                   if (fd_read_line (fd) == NULL)
---
>                   if (line == NULL)
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>                   else
>                     free(line);
355,359c359,368
<                 if (fd_read_line (fd) == NULL)
<                   {
<                     ret = -1;
<                     break;
<                   }
---
>               {
>                   char *line = fd_read_line(fd);
>                 if (line == NULL)
>                     {
>                       ret = -1;
>                       break;
>                     }
>                 else
>                   xfree(line);
>               }

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Title:
  wget. memory leaks

Status in wget package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Wget eats RAM when downloading big website. To reproduce run these on slow internet connection:
  bash$ wget -r -k -p -l inf -U 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)' 'http://bigwebsite.com/' 2> stderr.txt
  After one ~6 hours wget eats 1.5 GiB of RAM.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: wget 1.13.4-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-36.52~precise1-generic 3.8.13.14
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Mar 12 15:29:05 2014
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: wget
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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