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    dbus: Unref replies to avoid leaks · fac3689e
    Andrew Jeffery authored
    
    
    Testing showed that failing to free DBus message replies was leaking
    800-900kiB per boot. After adding the appropriate unrefs, mboxd memory
    consumption stayed stable at 71920kiB across multiple reboots of the
    host.
    
    The root cause was identified using a DBus capture of the host's IPMI
    traffic during boot, then reducing the output to mboxd-specific messages
    and turning them into commands that could be run with ipmitool. Adding
    all of these commands to a script and running `pmap` between ipmitool
    invocations showed the growth in memory usage across the "boot" process,
    but this did not correlate with any particular set of commands to mboxd.
    The lack of correlation lead to the hypothesis that we might be able to
    reproduce by sending a lot of dbus messages, such as:
    
    ```
    root@witherspoon:/tmp# for i in `seq 1 10000`; do \
    busctl call xyz.openbmc_project.Hiomapd \
    	/xyz/openbmc_project/Hiomapd \
    	xyz.openbmc_project.Hiomapd.Protocol.V2 \
    	GetInfo y 2; \
    done
    ```
    
    Spamming the daemon in this way demonstrated the growth in memory seen
    during a regular boot process, confirming that just sending DBus
    messages was enough.
    
    Add the necessary unrefs for the replies at the end of each method
    handler to ensure the replies are appropriately freed.
    
    Testing and confirmation of the fix were performed on a Witherspoon
    system.
    
    Change-Id: If5fe7576aaca1be617181526bf64511ccee1dd9f
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery's avatarAndrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
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