[openssl-dev] [libcrypto EVP] valgrind reports many memory leaks in wiki-example

[U.Mutlu]

U.Mutlu wrote on 11/23/2015 06:43 AM:
> U.Mutlu wrote on 11/23/2015 06:32 AM:
>> Hi,
>> running the following example from the openssl wiki site under valgrind
>> gives many memory-leaks in the underlying library functions:
>> https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/EVP_Symmetric_Encryption_and_Decryption
>>
>> $ valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --show-leak-kinds=all
>> --track-origins=yes -v ./a.out &>valgrind-output.txt
>>
>> Attached is the valgrind-output. It says:
>>    34 not-freed blocks
>>
>> Are these maybe false-positives? The leak summary in the output says this:
>>
>> ==9895== LEAK SUMMARY:
>> ==9895==    definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
>> ==9895==    indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
>> ==9895==      possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
>> ==9895==    still reachable: 2,632 bytes in 34 blocks
>> ==9895==         suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks

Has nobody a clue what the above output means?