[CASSANDRA-9656] Strong circular-reference leaks

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Urgent
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.8
• Severity: Critical
• Assignee: Benedict Elliott Smith
• Reporter: Benedict Elliott Smith

Authors

Benedict Elliott Smith

Reviewers

Branimir Lambov

• Created: 26/Jun/15 13:30
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 02/Jul/15 18:21

Description

As discussed in CASSANDRA-9423, we are leaking references to the ref-counted object into the Ref.Tidy, so that they remain strongly reachable, significantly limiting the value of the leak detection.