Even after adding the current patch in http://bugs.python.org/issue3651
there are many reference leaks. This bug can be a placeholder for all
the reference leaks returned from:
./python ./Lib/test/regrtest.py -R 3:2 -uall,-bsddb

The current list is:

test_unittest leaked [124, 124] references, sum=248
test_array leaked [110, 110] references, sum=220
test_audioop leaked [75, 75] references, sum=150
test_binascii leaked [4, 4] references, sum=8
test_binhex leaked [4, 4] references, sum=8
test_codecs leaked [3, 3] references, sum=6
test_ctypes leaked [9, 9] references, sum=18
test_dbm leaked [194, 194] references, sum=388
test_dbm_gnu leaked [2, 2] references, sum=4
test_fcntl leaked [2, 2] references, sum=4
test_file leaked [8, 8] references, sum=16
test_fileio leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_memoryio leaked [3, 3] references, sum=6
test_minidom leaked [5, 5] references, sum=10
test_mmap leaked [307, 307] references, sum=614
test_ossaudiodev leaked [2, 2] references, sum=4
test_pickle leaked [130, 130] references, sum=260
test_pickletools leaked [503, 503] references, sum=1006
test_pyexpat leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_re leaked [4, 4] references, sum=8
test_site leaked [88, 88] references, sum=176
test_socket leaked [13, 13] references, sum=26
test_sqlite leaked [17, 17] references, sum=34
test_ssl leaked [82, 82] references, sum=164
test_struct leaked [5, 5] references, sum=10
test_unicode leaked [2, 2] references, sum=4
test_urllib2_localnet leaked [3, 3] references, sum=6
test_xmlrpc leaked [18, 18] references, sum=36
test_xmlrpc_net leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_zlib leaked [10, 10] references, sum=20

As of r66047, I get the following results (without "-uall", though):

test_unittest leaked [124, 124] references, sum=248
test_binascii leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_distutils leaked [141, 142] references, sum=283
test_logging leaked [219, 147] references, sum=366
test_multiprocessing leaked [0, 1] references, sum=1
test_pickle leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_pickletools leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_popen leaked [37, 0] references, sum=37
test_site leaked [88, 88] references, sum=176
test_sqlite leaked [17, 17] references, sum=34
test_unicode leaked [2, 2] references, sum=4
test_urllib2_localnet leaked [3, 3] references, sum=6
test_xmlrpc leaked [-84, 85] references, sum=1

24 tests skipped:
test_bsddb3 test_cProfile test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk
test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw test_curses
test_dbm_gnu test_kqueue test_nis test_normalization
test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_socketserver test_startfile
test_tcl test_timeout test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_winreg
test_winsound test_xmlrpc_net test_zipfile64

• the "test_site leaked [88, 88]" is the same as problem as bpo-3667.

• test_unicodes leaks in PyUnicode_AsEncodedString (attached patch), and
  also with:
  str(memoryview(b'character buffers are decoded to unicode'), 'utf-8')
  I tried another patch, but I'm not sure: I get lost between all these
  buffers... a Py_DECREF(self->view.obj) in memory_releasebuf() seems to work.

str(memoryview(b'character buffers are decoded to unicode'), 'utf-8')
I tried another patch, but I'm not sure: I get lost between all these
buffers... a Py_DECREF(self->view.obj) in memory_releasebuf() seems to work.

Could you open a separate issue for the latter? Adding a DECREF in
memory_releasebuf() isn't the right thing to do, because PyBuffer_Release()
already does such a DECREF. I think the problem is rather in memory_getbuf(), it
tries to take some strange shortcuts.

Oh, and I realize that memoryobject doesn't have tp_traverse and tp_clear, which
looks quite wrong...

bpo-3712 tracks the memoryview issues.

the leaks in test_pickle and test_pickletools are corrected by the
attached patch.

Amaury, I believe the first part of encode-leak.patch is wrong, you
should Py_DECREF the bytearray after it has been converted to bytes, not
before. Here is an alternate patch.

Oops, you are right of course.
I remove my patch so we don't get confused.

With the two patches applied, we are now at:

test_unittest leaked [124, 124] references, sum=248
test_distutils leaked [141, 142] references, sum=283
test_docxmlrpc leaked [85, -85] references, sum=0
test_logging leaked [366, -366] references, sum=0
test_os leaked [37, 0] references, sum=37
test_site leaked [88, 88] references, sum=176
test_smtplib leaked [0, 87] references, sum=87
test_sqlite leaked [17, 17] references, sum=34
test_telnetlib leaked [151, -151] references, sum=0
test_unicode leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_urllib2_localnet leaked [3, 3] references, sum=6
test_xmlrpc leaked [-85, 0] references, sum=-85

24 tests skipped:
test_bsddb3 test_cProfile test_codecmaps_cn test_codecmaps_hk
test_codecmaps_jp test_codecmaps_kr test_codecmaps_tw test_curses
test_dbm_gnu test_kqueue test_nis test_normalization
test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_socketserver test_startfile
test_tcl test_timeout test_urllib2net test_urllibnet test_winreg
test_winsound test_xmlrpc_net test_zipfile64
2 skips unexpected on linux2:

Did you look at the patch for bpo-3667 ? it should at least correct
test_site.

Ok, after the two patches plus the patch in bpo-3667, I get the following:

test_asyncore leaked [84, -84] references, sum=0
test_distutils leaked [141, 142] references, sum=283
test_docxmlrpc leaked [-85, 0] references, sum=-85
test_logging leaked [219, -219] references, sum=0
test_sqlite leaked [17, 17] references, sum=34
test_unicode leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_urllib2_localnet leaked [3, 3] references, sum=6
test_xmlrpc leaked [-6, -79] references, sum=-85

The patch for _pickle has been committed in r66227.

Numbers for the current py3k branch (without encode-leak2.patch):

test_distutils leaked [141, 142] references, sum=283
test_docxmlrpc leaked [-7, -85] references, sum=-92
test_logging leaked [0, 219] references, sum=219
test_poplib leaked [0, 84] references, sum=84
test_sys leaked [0, 34] references, sum=34
test_unicode leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2
test_urllib2_localnet leaked [3, 3] references, sum=6
test_xmlrpc leaked [192, -190] references, sum=2

The only one that is probably an issue based on Antoine's info is:

test_unicode leaked [1, 1] references, sum=2

I've seen test_urllib2_localnet leak 3 before. I don't know that it's
a real leak. I'm pretty sure it is not a regression though.

FWIW, applying encode-leak2.patch removes the leak in test_unicode.

Antoine, it seem that with encode-leak2.patch, the error path after
PyErr_WarnEx() leaks the value of "v".

I rewrote the whole paragraph to make it more straightforward:

• the normal case is tested first
• all paths end with a "return", and no goto.
• no need to test that PyBytes_FromStringAndSize returns a PyBytes...

I find the code much easier to check in this form, but of course this is
a subjective POV.

Le vendredi 05 septembre 2008 à 13:08 +0000, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc a
écrit :

Antoine, it seem that with encode-leak2.patch, the error path after
PyErr_WarnEx() leaks the value of "v".

Hmm, you are right.

I rewrote the whole paragraph to make it more straightforward:

• the normal case is tested first
• all paths end with a "return", and no goto.
• no need to test that PyBytes_FromStringAndSize returns a PyBytes...

I'll take a look!

Amaury, your patch is much clearer indeed and it fixes the leak.

encode-leak3.patch applied in r66234.

Current status:

test_distutils leaked [141, 142] references, sum=283
test_logging leaked [0, -219] references, sum=-219
test_smtplib leaked [0, 87] references, sum=87

The distutils leak should be investigated, but the overall situation is
rather good now. The other, transient, leaks might be due to some thread
being cleaned up too late or something.

test_distutils is also leaking the the trunk:

test_distutils leaked [144, 144, 144, 144] references, sum=576

test_distutils will be difficult; the leak is around the "import xx" in
Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py.

And Python/import.c says:
/* To prevent initializing an extension module more than once, we keep a
static dictionary 'extensions' keyed [...] by filename (for dynamically
loaded modules). A copy of the module's dictionary is stored [...]
*/

This dictionary keeps growing with random filenames in the temp
directory. I can't see a way to clean it.

test_distutils will be difficult; the leak is around the "import xx" in
Lib/distutils/tests/test_build_ext.py.

And Python/import.c says:
/* To prevent initializing an extension module more than once, we keep a
static dictionary 'extensions' keyed [...] by filename (for dynamically
loaded modules). A copy of the module's dictionary is stored [...]
*/

This dictionary keeps growing with random filenames in the temp
directory. I can't see a way to clean it.

If it's just that (one leaked string per each extension module import),
I think we can live with it.

It's not only the name, but a copy of the whole module dict just after
import (that's why reload(sys) takes you back the
sys.setdefaultencoding() function).

Actually I found a (hackish) way to clean the 'extension' dict, but this
is not enough: the static variables in xxmodule.c cannot be cleared.
Shall we exclude this test from the leak hunter?

It's not only the name, but a copy of the whole module dict just after
import (that's why reload(sys) takes you back the
sys.setdefaultencoding() function).

Ow.

Actually I found a (hackish) way to clean the 'extension' dict, but this
is not enough: the static variables in xxmodule.c cannot be cleared.
Shall we exclude this test from the leak hunter?

I'd prefer not. If we hide this leak, we'll end up forgetting about its
existence.

With the new module structure in 3.0, it should be possible to add a
cleanup function. It would be a good exercise; I don't know of any
module defining such a function.

This issue has been fixed.