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Replicating the memory leak was a bit convoluted, what I did is: I had this SimpleApp (similar to the one proposed in from #986): I executed it in one terminal and then run this python script in another terminal to open a websocket connection The app stopping triggers the memory leak which I detected using asan |
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The current code was using
std::vector<crow::websocket::connection*> websockets_;to keep track of the websockets created in theAppclass. Thewebsockets_is cleaned when theApp.close()is called.On the other hand, the function to populate the vector (
App::add_websocket), was never being called. This means that in practice it was failing to keep track of the websockets connection and therefore to clean them.The use of raw pointers and the logical error which resulted in not correctly updating
websockets_was resulting in the memory leak reported in #986. Whenever the App is closed before a connection had time to terminate or in the casedelete thiswas not being called on thewesocket::Connection.This PR solves the memory leak by executing
add_websocketwhenever a websocket connection is created and migrates from the use of raw pointers and manual disposal to shared_pointers.This PR might also solve all the other known instances of memory leak in the websocket implementation (#700 and #529) but I had no time to verify it.