[Xorp-hackers] Crash due to stale cached xrl sender pointer.

[Ben Greear]

Ben Greear wrote:
> XRL caches a pointer to the resolved_sender, but when something
> deletes a sender, it doesn't appear to clean up any existing XRLs.
> This leads to a crash on a highly loaded system (where senders must be 
> timing out
> or something like that).
>
> Looks like a good place for smart pointers.  I'm going to attempt that 
> unless
> someone has another idea...
>   
The attached patch seems to fix the problem.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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