Issue 1724 - Fixed memory leak in messaging code, when no response is sent, on Safari

safari/ext/common.js

 /*
  * This file is part of Adblock Plus <http://adblockplus.org/>,
  * Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Eyeo GmbH
  *
  * Adblock Plus is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  *
  * Adblock Plus is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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     this._messageDispatcher = messageDispatcher;
     this._responseCallbacks = {__proto__: null};
     this._responseCallbackCounter = 0;
   };
   MessageProxy.prototype = {
     _sendResponse: function(request, message)
     {
       var response = {};
       for (var prop in request)
         response[prop] = request[prop];
-      response.payload = message;
+      if (typeof message != "undefined")
+        response.payload = message;
 
       this._messageDispatcher.dispatchMessage("response", response);
     },
     handleRequest: function(request, sender)
     {
-      var sendResponse;
       if ("callbackId" in request)
-        sendResponse = this._sendResponse.bind(this, request);
+      {
+        var sent = false;
+        var sendResponse = function(message)
+        {
+          this._sendResponse(request, message);
+          sent = true;
+        }.bind(this);
+
+        var results = ext.onMessage._dispatch(request.payload, sender, sendResponse);
+
+        // The onMessage listener has to return true to indicate that a response
+        // is sent later asynchronously. Otherwise if no response was sent yet,
+        // we sent a response indicating that there is no response, that
+        // the other end can remove the callback and doesn't leak memory.
+        if (!sent && results.indexOf(true) == -1)
+          this._sendResponse(request, undefined);
+      }
       else
-        sendResponse = function() {};
-
-      ext.onMessage._dispatch(request.payload, sender, sendResponse);
+      {
+        ext.onMessage._dispatch(request.payload, sender, function() {});
+      }
     },
     handleResponse: function(response)
     {
       var callbackId = response.callbackId;
       var callback = this._responseCallbacks[callbackId];
       if (callback)
       {
         delete this._responseCallbacks[callbackId];
-        callback(response.payload);
+
+        if ("payload" in response)
+          callback(response.payload);
       }
     },
     sendMessage: function(message, responseCallback, extra)
     {
       var request = {payload: message};
 
       if (responseCallback)
       {
         request.callbackId = ++this._responseCallbackCounter;
         this._responseCallbacks[request.callbackId] = responseCallback;
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   };
 
 
   /* Utils */
 
   ext.getURL = function(path)
   {
     return safari.extension.baseURI + path;
   };
 })();