PHP :: Bug #30053 :: php leaks memory when using references

Bug #30053

php leaks memory when using references

Submitted:

2004年09月10日 18:20 UTC

Modified:

2004年09月15日 17:02 UTC

Votes:	41
Avg. Score:	4.5 ± 1.2
Reproduced:	25 of 28 (89.3%)
Same Version:	10 (40.0%)
Same OS:	17 (68.0%)

From:

hkmaly at bigfoot dot com

Assigned:

Status:

Wont fix

Package:

Scripting Engine problem

PHP Version:

4.3.8

OS:

Linux

Private report:

CVE-ID:

None

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[2004年09月10日 18:20 UTC] hkmaly at bigfoot dot com

Description:
------------
If I play with references, I found php doesn't properly free
all memory in arrays with references ... for example don't free all memory in local variables of function. By repeating calling that function, leak can lead to consumation of all allowed memory.
BTW, submited also as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63559
Reproduce code:
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<?php
function testLeak()
{
 $a=array("jablka","hrusky","petr"=>"zeli");
 foreach($a as $k=>$v) {
 $b[$k]=&$a;
 $b[$k]['names']=&$a;
 }
 return($b);
}
echo memory_get_usage()."\n";
for($i=0;$i<200000;$i++) {
 testLeak();
 echo memory_get_usage()."\n";
}
 ?>
Expected result:
----------------
Something as 
20720
21816
22144
22144
22144
....
22144
22144
22144
Actual result:
--------------
20720
21816
22144
.....
.....
.....
16775400
16775728
16776056
16776384
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
32 bytes) in /castle/hkmaly/programy/php/test_leak.php on line 6

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[2004年09月15日 10:52 UTC] sniper@php.net

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
circular references, blaa blaa, search the bug db for couple of hundred other similar bug reports. (Won't fix)

[2004年09月15日 17:02 UTC] hkmaly at bigfoot dot com

Couple of hundred ? I don't found ANYTHING with http://bugs.php.net/search.php?search_for=circular+references&boolean=1&limit=10&order_by=&direction=ASC&cmd=display&status=All&php_os=&phpver=&assign=&author_email=&bug_age=
and only one which look similar with http://bugs.php.net/search.php?search_for=circular+references&boolean=0&limit=10&order_by=&direction=ASC&cmd=display&status=All&bug_type%5B%5D=Scripting+Engine+problem&php_os=&phpver=&assign=&author_email=&bug_age=0 ... maybee your bug-finding system needs some work.
That similar one is http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=5620 with answer "leaking memory is the intended behaviour using circular references" and "PHP does not do circular references." ... and that leak even has NOT circular references - only multiple references to same array.
(On the other hand, original code, before I tried to found minimal case, HAS circular references).
Also, there are no "circular references" in PHP manual and "reference counting" is only in user contributed note starting "I had trouble digging this out, ...".
I didn't know I must read manual for zend ...
Can you tell me more ? Like some other, more simmilar bug number, if it's better in PHP 5, will be in PHP 6 or if I just must learn perl (or lisp) ?