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Description
A memory leak can be seen when the following matched pair of commands is called, using a schema containing an AVRO_LINK. This pair of commands constructs a class (value iface) from a schema and then destroys the constructed class.
record_class = avro_generic_class_from_schema( schema );
avro_value_iface_decref( record_class );
If schema contains an AVRO_LINK, then avro_generic_class_from_schema() calls avro_generic_link_class(), which calls avro_schema_incref() on the AVRO_LINK target schema and assigns the target schema pointer to the iface->schema.
When we subsequently call avro_value_iface_decref() to deallocate the class, this function calls avro_generic_link_decref_iface(), which frees the memory for the link interface without calling avro_schema_decref() on the target schema pointed to by iface->schema.
Thus the memory of the target schema is leaked when we create and destroy a value interface for an AVRO_LINK.
Calling avro_schema_decref() on the the target schema (iface->schema) before calling avro_freet() on the iface fixes this memory leak.
Note: The pair of commands shown above results in a memory leak, when we create and destroy a value interface from any schema containing an AVRO_LINK, regardless of whether it is recursive or not. There is a separate issue regarding memory leaks with recursive schemas described in AVRO-766. The fix for this issue can only be tested with non-recursive schemas containing AVRO_LINKs until AVRO-766 is fixed.