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Re: (ITS#7724) Invalid FREE suspected in unbind.c

michael.vishchers@7p-group.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Michael Vishchers
> Version: 2.4.36
> OS: RHEL 6.3
> URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
> Submission from: (NULL) (109.41.86.33)
>
>
> This may be connected to ITS #7723:
>
> in unbind.c, there is new code (newer than 2.4.23, i.e.) that takes care not to
> free the ld struct if some other thread is using it (line 82ff)
>
> Unfortunately, in line 102, after decrementing the ref count in this struct,
> this struct is freed nonetheless.

The struct is freed because it should only be used by one thread.
Read draft-zeilenga-ldap-c-api-concurrency. Closing this ITS.

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