Fix for HDFFV-10659: The library aborts with "infinite loop closing library"

after deleting attributes in densed storage.
The fix: When deleting attribute nodes from the name index v2 B-tree,
if an attribute is found in the intermediate B-tree nodes, which may be
merged/redistributed in the process, we need to free the dynamically
allocated spaces for the intermediate decoded attribute.

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
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 HDF5 version 1.10.5-snap1 currently under development
+=======
+ version 1.11.4 currently under development
+>>>>>>> c70498f... Merge pull request #1414 in HDFFV/hdf5 from ~VCHOI/my_hdf5_fork:develop to develop
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@@ -246,6 +250,19 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.10.3 release
 
     Library
     -------
+    - Deleting attributes in dense storage
+
+      The library aborts with "infinite loop closing library" after
+      attributes in dense storage are created and then deleted.
+
+      When deleting the attribute nodes from the name index v2 B-tree,
+      if an attribute is found in the intermediate B-tree nodes,
+      which may be merged/redistributed in the process, we need to 
+      free the dynamically allocated spaces for the intermediate 
+      decoded attribute.
+
+      (VC - 2018/12/26, HDFFV-10659)
+
     - A bug was discovered in the parallel library where an application
       would eventually consume all of the available MPI communicators
       when continually writing to a compressed dataset in parallel. This