Memory leak in iOS 8+ after setting window.rootViewController while another view controller is presented

Originator:me
Number:rdar://21404408 Date Originated:16/6/2015
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iOS Product Version:8.3
Classification:Other bug Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
Background: Our app requires the user to log in every time they use it, and logs the user out when entering background or after a period of inactivity. When logging out, the application replaces the window's current rootViewController with a new instance of our login view controller. This is to ensure all views and view controllers used during the user’s session are removed.

If a view controller presentation is in progress when the window's -rootViewController is replaced, then the presented view controller, the presenting view controller, and their views are not deallocated.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an application with three view controllers, A, B, and C.
2. In application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:, create a window and set its root view controller to an instance of A.
3. Use -presentViewController:animated:completion: to present an instance of B from A.
4. Without dismissing B, set the window's root view controller to an instance of C.

Expected Results:
View controllers A and B are deallocated.

Actual Results:
View controllers A and B leak, together with their views.

Version:
iOS 8.3 Simulator

Notes:
In iOS 7.1, the view controllers A and B are deallocated as expected.

Configuration:
iOS 8.3 Simulator

Comments

Fixed

Seems like fixed in iOS 13

By anton.tikhonoff at April 7, 2020, 3:01 p.m. (reply...)

still occurring in iOS 12.1

This is still occuring on iOS 12.0.1

By kcankaynak at Oct. 23, 2018, 1:43 p.m. (reply...)

This is still occurring on iOS 11.4

By alexjfigueroa at July 31, 2018, 6:58 p.m. (reply...)

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