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| bug-1885 | open | 2026-09-29 | newly logged | scheduler | leak | 2026-09-29T09:48:44Z | 2026-09-29T09:48:44Z | 1 |
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bug-1885: scheduler normal mode never frees decision structs: 64 bytes leaked per published decision
Description
Observed: (code reading) the normal-mode round loop in
xce_sched_driver_run_normal_mode_round() (src/scheduler/src/driver.c)
drains each xce_decision_t* from core->decisions, records it and passes
it to on_decision, but never frees the struct make_*_decision()
(decision.c) calloc()s:
cbuf_get(&(sched->core.decisions), &decision);
... sched->core.on_decision(sched->core.driver_ctx, decision);
/* decision never freed */
Expected: the round loop frees the decision struct (not its alloc/pend reason, which the job owns) once published.
Impact: leak of 64 bytes per dispatch/pend decision for the life of a normal-mode scheduler. Simulation mode was fixed in bug-1884 (ebfe4794). Three tests (test_core_full_cycle.c, test_core_session.c, test_snapshot_save_load.c) keep decision pointers from their callback, so the fix changes the callback contract ("valid only during the call") and those tests.
Found by: review (while fixing bug-1884, 2026-09-29)
Environment
- OS: no /etc/os-release; Docker container; NixOS kernel; kernel Linux 6.18.33 x86_64
- libc: glibc 2.42-47 (interpreter /nix/store/wb6rhpznjfczwlwx23zmdrrw74bayxw4-glibc-2.42-47/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
- Toolchain: gcc (GCC) 15.2.0, meson 1.9.1
- Build: asan (src/xce.build.discrete)
- Code: scheduler-framework @ 90b99d91-dirty
- Deployment: n/a (found by code reading while fixing bug-1884; not observed on a deployment)
Reproduction
- Read
src/scheduler/src/driver.cround loop (thecbuf_get(&(sched->core.decisions), ...)loop) andsrc/scheduler/src/decision.cmake_dispatch_decision()/make_pend_decision(). - A live check: run a normal-mode scheduler under ASAN with detect_leaks=1 through a few rounds and stop it cleanly; expect
make_*_decisiondirect leaks.
- Frequency: deterministic by code reading (one struct per decision)
- Evidence: not kept; code reading
Root cause
TODO: required for fixed/partial
Fix
TODO: required for fixed/partial
Verification
- Test: TODO: name + file; RED before the fix, GREEN after
- Suites: TODO: suite results and build profile
- Live: TODO: soak/deploy run, or n/a and why
References
- Related: bug-1884