[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 118473] [GTK] Leak: GstElement* leaking in MediaPlayerPrivateGStreamer::createAudioSink()

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118473





--- Comment #9 from Christophe Dumez <dchris at gmail.com>  2013-07-08 10:01:20 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > > I don't know much about gst, but I thought elements had a floating reference that is consumed when added to a container.
> > 
> > Indeed, and the proof of that is that you don't actually "adopt". So which one(s) were actually leaking?
> 
> I think all of them were leaking: gst_element_factory_make () returns a new GstElement or NULL if unable to create element. [transfer floating]

gst_element_factory() returns a floating reference and get_bin_add_many() should take ownership of the returned values later on:
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/GstBin.html#gst-bin-add

Therefore, I don't understand why it leaks.

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