Capturing a QFuture in the continuations attached to it results in
memory leaks. QFuture's ref-counted data can only be deleted when the
last copy referencing the data gets deleted. The saved continuation
that keeps a copy of the future (as in case of the lambda capture) will
prevent the data from being deleted. So we need to manually clean the
continuation after it is run. But this doesn't solve the problem if the
continuation isn't run. In that case, clean the continuation in the
destructor of the associated QPromise.
To avoid similar leaks, internally we should always create futures via
QPromise, instead of the ref-counted QFutureInterface, so that the
continuation is always cleaned in the destructor. Currently QFuture
continuations and QtFuture::when* methods use QFutureInterface directly,
which will be fixed by the follow-up commits.
Fixes: QTBUG-99534
Pick-to: 6.3 6.2
Change-Id: Ic13e7dffd8cb25bd6b87e5416fe4d1a97af74c9b
Reviewed-by: Mårten Nordheim <marten.nordheim@qt.io>
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