Doing some more testing... I am not even sure my analysis is correct. :-/ Let me recap: I am running Arch Linux, and my application started leaking memory after the update from webkit2gtk 2.38.5-1 (ok) to 2.40.0-2 (bad). I will attach my application source code and a massif log file which was generated with: valgrind --tool=massif --trace-children=yes ./browse -u https://eworm.de/tmp/webkit.html

Created attachment 467584 [details] source code of reproducing application

Created attachment 467585 [details] missif log file

Weird. 261107@main seems to be innocent. The change doesn't create cairo_font_options repeatedly. Did you confirm if your problem was fixed by reverting the change?

You are right... It is not caused by 261107@main. After my initial doubt I just reverted the commit, and the issue still exists. So anything I can tell is that it was fine with 2.38.5-1, was introduced with 2.40.0-2 and is still there with 2.40.5. Any idea?

Almost 5000+ commit between this range (using GitHub tags): https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/compare/webkitgtk-2.38.1...webkitgtk-2.40.2

Yes, that's the problem... (Btw, this is about 2.38.5 and 2.40.0, the appended number with dash is Arch Linux incremental package release). I had thought about bisecting. Actually that failed, as I was suffering build issues. To date I can not even build 2.38.5 because of toolchain updates.

I managed to finish a bisect... Took me a lot of time and did cost some extra grey hair. 🤪 c0289be0b9ab80469106e8b06cf75b9c62f37ec9 is the first bad commit commit c0289be0b9ab80469106e8b06cf75b9c62f37ec9 Author: Vitaly Dyachkov <vitaly@igalia.com> Date: Mon Mar 13 02:50:36 2023 -0700 Cherry-pick 261566@main (2d385163e7ce). https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177039 [Freetype] Apply basic font properties as font variation settings https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177039 Reviewed by Carlos Garcia Campos. This patch makes sure that the basic font properties, such as `font-weight`, `font-width`, and `font-style`, are applied in the same way as `font-variation-settings`. * LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/basic-properties-expected.html: Added. * LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/basic-properties.html: Added. * LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/resources/AmstelvarAlpha-VF.woff2: Added. * LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/resources/Roboto-VF.woff2: Added. * LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/resources/jost-VF.woff2: Added. * Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/freetype/FontCacheFreeType.cpp: (WebCore::buildVariationSettings): Canonical link: https://commits.webkit.org/261566@main .../text/variations/basic-properties-expected.html | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++ .../fast/text/variations/basic-properties.html | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../variations/resources/AmstelvarAlpha-VF.woff2 | Bin 0 -> 76720 bytes .../fast/text/variations/resources/Roboto-VF.woff2 | Bin 0 -> 1475864 bytes .../fast/text/variations/resources/jost-VF.woff2 | Bin 0 -> 141636 bytes .../graphics/freetype/FontCacheFreeType.cpp | 25 +++++++++++++-- .../platform/graphics/freetype/FontCacheFreeType.h | 2 +- .../freetype/FontCustomPlatformDataFreeType.cpp | 2 +- 8 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/basic-properties-expected.html create mode 100644 LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/basic-properties.html create mode 100644 LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/resources/AmstelvarAlpha-VF.woff2 create mode 100644 LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/resources/Roboto-VF.woff2 create mode 100644 LayoutTests/fast/text/variations/resources/jost-VF.woff2

All of the leaks happened in cairo, and issues are addressed there. Closing as invalid.

Nice! https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/514