Unity Issue Tracker - Memory leak when using NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces

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Found in

2021.3.31f1

2022.3.11f1

2023.1.16f1

2023.2.0b12

2023.3.0a8

Issue ID

UUM-52888

Regression

No

Memory leak when using NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces

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Oct 10, 2023

How to reproduce:
1. Open the attached project "testiphlpmemleak.zip"
2. Enter Play Mode
3. Open Analysis>Profiler
4. Select the "Memory" tab in the Profiler window

Expected results: "Unknown" memory is not increasing
Actual results: "Unknown" memory is increasing

Reproducible with: 2021.3.30f1, 2022.3.10f1, 2023.1.14f1, 2023.2.0b10, 2023.3.0a6

Reproducible on: Windows 10 22H2
Not reproducible on: No other environment tested

Resolution Note:

We are not planning to correct this leak. We expect that this API method will not be called often during a process.

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Comments (2)

destenson-dft

Feb 14, 2025 17:25

"We expect that this API method will not be called often during a process."

Unfortunately, this leak is actively causing us problems, since we have an application that runs for months & needs to update the network state often.
destenson-dft

Sep 05, 2024 18:30

Did Unity investigate the cause of the leak or just conclude it isn't important for the vast majority of users?

I have recently done a bit of a deep dive & found it's most likely to be caused by code like line 56 here: https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/0f53e9e151d92944cacab3e24ac359410c606df6/mcs/class/System/System.Net.NetworkInformation/Win32NetworkInterface.cs#L56
The ptr returned by Marshal.AllocHGlobal(len) on that line is never Marshal.FreeHGlobal(ptr) freed. It seems pretty straightforward to add the call to free the memory before returning.

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