The 4th and 5th bullet points under "symptom details" of my original
ticket text are not supported by the evidence. Corrected replacements:
* Valgrind does NOT show lost memory after a ONE SASL authentication by
a process.
* Valgrind shows N-1 lost memory blocks after N multiple SASL
authentications by a process. Given the same credentials and mech, each
such block is the same size, ca. 500-600 bytes.
On reflection, it is probably the LAST authentication that frees the
memory block in question, although my testing seems to indicate it is
NOT unbind() that does so; perhaps some sort of process termination
callback in OpenLDAP, SASL, or MD5 library code?
Sorry about the initial inaccuracy.