From 643ce2f8c063e8fd1e96f5cd6d814bfc13053fde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norman Maurer <nmaurer@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:40:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix all leaks reported during tests

- One notable leak is from WebSocketFrameAggregator
- All other leaks are from tests
---
 .../io/netty/buffer/AbstractByteBufTest.java  |  2 +-
 .../buffer/AbstractCompositeByteBufTest.java  | 74 ++++++++++---------
 .../io/netty/buffer/ByteBufProcessorTest.java |  7 +-
 .../websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregator.java  |  6 +-
 .../codec/http/HttpClientCodecTest.java       | 46 +++++++++++-
 .../codec/http/HttpContentEncoderTest.java    |  8 +-
 .../codec/http/HttpObjectAggregatorTest.java  |  9 ++-
 .../multipart/HttpPostRequestDecoderTest.java | 23 +++---
 .../WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest.java         | 35 +++++++--
 .../WebSocketServerHandshaker00Test.java      |  6 +-
 .../WebSocketServerHandshaker08Test.java      |  5 +-
 .../WebSocketServerHandshaker13Test.java      |  5 +-
 .../WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest.java   | 12 +--
 .../codec/ByteToMessageDecoderTest.java       |  4 +
 .../codec/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java | 29 +++++---
 .../LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java     |  6 +-
 .../codec/LineBasedFrameDecoderTest.java      | 24 ++++--
 .../codec/ReplayingDecoderBufferTest.java     | 11 +--
 .../handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderTest.java   | 14 +++-
 .../compression/SnappyFramedDecoderTest.java  |  5 +-
 .../compression/SnappyFramedEncoderTest.java  |  7 +-
 .../compression/SnappyIntegrationTest.java    | 18 +++++
 .../handler/codec/compression/ZlibTest.java   |  8 ++
 .../frame/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java |  5 +-
 .../LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java     |  5 +-
 .../ProtobufVarint32FrameDecoderTest.java     |  7 +-
 ...tobufVarint32LengthFieldPrependerTest.java |  5 +-
 .../codec/string/StringEncoderTest.java       |  1 +
 .../stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java       |  6 +-
 .../socket/SocketBufReleaseTest.java          |  7 ++
 .../channel/ChannelOutboundBufferTest.java    | 24 +++---
 31 files changed, 293 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)

diff --git a/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/AbstractByteBufTest.java b/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/AbstractByteBufTest.java
index 74f420a040..60c31c748e 100644
--- a/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/AbstractByteBufTest.java
+++ b/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/AbstractByteBufTest.java
@@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractByteBufTest {
     @Test
     public void testToString() {
         buffer.clear();
-        buffer.writeBytes(copiedBuffer("Hello, World!", CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
+        buffer.writeBytes(releaseLater(copiedBuffer("Hello, World!", CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1)));
         assertEquals("Hello, World!", buffer.toString(CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
     }
 
diff --git a/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/AbstractCompositeByteBufTest.java b/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/AbstractCompositeByteBufTest.java
index 678ec01902..a943f1f05d 100644
--- a/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/AbstractCompositeByteBufTest.java
+++ b/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/AbstractCompositeByteBufTest.java
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractCompositeByteBufTest extends AbstractByteBufTest {
      */
     @Test
     public void testComponentAtOffset() {
-        CompositeByteBuf buf = (CompositeByteBuf) wrappedBuffer(new byte[]{1, 2, 3, 4, 5},
-                new byte[]{4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 26});
+        CompositeByteBuf buf = releaseLater((CompositeByteBuf) wrappedBuffer(new byte[]{1, 2, 3, 4, 5},
+                new byte[]{4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 26}));
 
         //Ensure that a random place will be fine
         assertEquals(5, buf.componentAtOffset(2).capacity());
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractCompositeByteBufTest extends AbstractByteBufTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testAutoConsolidation() {
-        CompositeByteBuf buf = compositeBuffer(2);
+        CompositeByteBuf buf = releaseLater(compositeBuffer(2));
 
         buf.addComponent(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1 }));
         assertEquals(1, buf.numComponents());
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractCompositeByteBufTest extends AbstractByteBufTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testCompositeToSingleBuffer() {
-        CompositeByteBuf buf = compositeBuffer(3);
+        CompositeByteBuf buf = releaseLater(compositeBuffer(3));
 
         buf.addComponent(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] {1, 2, 3}));
         assertEquals(1, buf.numComponents());
@@ -229,13 +229,13 @@ public abstract class AbstractCompositeByteBufTest extends AbstractByteBufTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testCompositeWrappedBuffer() {
-        ByteBuf header = buffer(12).order(order);
-        ByteBuf payload = buffer(512).order(order);
+        ByteBuf header = releaseLater(buffer(12)).order(order);
+        ByteBuf payload = releaseLater(buffer(512)).order(order);
 
         header.writeBytes(new byte[12]);
         payload.writeBytes(new byte[512]);
 
-        ByteBuf buffer = wrappedBuffer(header, payload);
+        ByteBuf buffer = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(header, payload));
 
         assertEquals(12, header.readableBytes());
         assertEquals(512, payload.readableBytes());
@@ -362,77 +362,81 @@ public abstract class AbstractCompositeByteBufTest extends AbstractByteBufTest {
         //XXX Same tests than testEquals with written AggregateChannelBuffers
         ByteBuf a, b;
         // Different length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1  }).order(order);
-        b = wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1 }, new byte[1]).order(order));
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1  })).order(order);
+        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1 }, new byte[1])).order(order));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 1);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 2 }).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 2 })).order(order));
         assertFalse(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
 
         // Same content, same firstIndex, short length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }).order(order);
-        b = wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1 }, new byte[2]).order(order));
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 })).order(order);
+        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1 }, new byte[2]))).order(order));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 2);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 2 }).order(order));
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 3 }).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 2 })).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 3 })).order(order));
         assertTrue(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
 
         // Same content, different firstIndex, short length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }).order(order);
-        b = wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 }, 1, 3).order(order));
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 })).order(order);
+        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 }, 1, 3))).order(order));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 1);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 }, 3, 1).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 }, 3, 1)).order(order));
         assertTrue(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
 
         // Different content, same firstIndex, short length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }).order(order);
-        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2 }, new byte[1]).order(order)));
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 })).order(order);
+        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2 }, new byte[1])).order(order)));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 1);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 4 }).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 4 })).order(order));
         assertFalse(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
 
         // Different content, different firstIndex, short length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }).order(order);
-        b = wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 4, 5 }, 1, 3).order(order));
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 })).order(order);
+        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 4, 5 }, 1, 3))).order(order));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 1);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 4, 5 }, 3, 1).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 4, 5 }, 3, 1)).order(order));
         assertFalse(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
 
         // Same content, same firstIndex, long length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 }).order(order);
-        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }, new byte[7])).order(order));
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 })).order(order);
+        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }, new byte[7]))).order(order));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 7);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 4, 5, 6 }).order(order));
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 7, 8, 9, 10 }).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 4, 5, 6 })).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 7, 8, 9, 10 })).order(order));
         assertTrue(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
 
         // Same content, different firstIndex, long length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 }).order(order);
-        b = wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}, 1, 10).order(order));
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 })).order(order);
+        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(releaseLater(
+                wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}, 1, 10))).order(order));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 5);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}, 6, 5).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(
+                wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11}, 6, 5)).order(order));
         assertTrue(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
 
         // Different content, same firstIndex, long length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 }).order(order);
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 })).order(order);
         b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 }, new byte[5])).order(order));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 5);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 7, 8, 5, 9, 10 }).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 7, 8, 5, 9, 10 })).order(order));
         assertFalse(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
 
         // Different content, different firstIndex, long length.
-        a = wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 }).order(order);
-        b = wrappedBuffer(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 5, 9, 10, 11 }, 1, 10).order(order));
+        a = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 })).order(order);
+        b = releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(releaseLater(
+                wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 5, 9, 10, 11 }, 1, 10))).order(order));
         // to enable writeBytes
         b.writerIndex(b.writerIndex() - 5);
-        b.writeBytes(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 5, 9, 10, 11 }, 6, 5).order(order));
+        b.writeBytes(releaseLater(
+                wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 5, 9, 10, 11 }, 6, 5)).order(order));
         assertFalse(ByteBufUtil.equals(a, b));
     }
 
diff --git a/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/ByteBufProcessorTest.java b/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/ByteBufProcessorTest.java
index 8d9e76fd40..26e833489e 100644
--- a/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/ByteBufProcessorTest.java
+++ b/buffer/src/test/java/io/netty/buffer/ByteBufProcessorTest.java
@@ -19,12 +19,14 @@ package io.netty.buffer;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class ByteBufProcessorTest {
     @Test
     public void testForward() {
-        final ByteBuf buf = Unpooled.copiedBuffer("abc\r\n\ndef\r\rghi\n\njkl\0\0mno  \t\tx", CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1);
+        final ByteBuf buf = releaseLater(
+                Unpooled.copiedBuffer("abc\r\n\ndef\r\rghi\n\njkl\0\0mno  \t\tx", CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
         final int length = buf.readableBytes();
 
         assertEquals(3,  buf.forEachByte(0,  length, ByteBufProcessor.FIND_CRLF));
@@ -42,7 +44,8 @@ public class ByteBufProcessorTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testBackward() {
-        final ByteBuf buf = Unpooled.copiedBuffer("abc\r\n\ndef\r\rghi\n\njkl\0\0mno  \t\tx", CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1);
+        final ByteBuf buf = releaseLater(
+                Unpooled.copiedBuffer("abc\r\n\ndef\r\rghi\n\njkl\0\0mno  \t\tx", CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
         final int length = buf.readableBytes();
 
         assertEquals(27, buf.forEachByteDesc(0, length, ByteBufProcessor.FIND_LINEAR_WHITESPACE));
diff --git a/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregator.java b/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregator.java
index 080bc7dcb0..c8cb395b61 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregator.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregator.java
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ public class WebSocketFrameAggregator extends MessageToMessageDecoder<WebSocketF
             } else if (msg instanceof BinaryWebSocketFrame) {
                 currentFrame = new BinaryWebSocketFrame(true, msg.rsv(), buf);
             } else {
+                buf.release();
                 throw new IllegalStateException(
                         "WebSocket frame was not of type TextWebSocketFrame or BinaryWebSocketFrame");
             }
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@ public class WebSocketFrameAggregator extends MessageToMessageDecoder<WebSocketF
             }
             CompositeByteBuf content = (CompositeByteBuf) currentFrame.content();
             if (content.readableBytes() > maxFrameSize - msg.content().readableBytes()) {
+                // release the current frame
+                currentFrame.release();
                 tooLongFrameFound = true;
                 throw new TooLongFrameException(
                         "WebSocketFrame length exceeded " + content +
@@ -102,7 +105,6 @@ public class WebSocketFrameAggregator extends MessageToMessageDecoder<WebSocketF
     @Override
     public void channelInactive(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception {
         super.channelInactive(ctx);
-
         // release current frame if it is not null as it may be a left-over
         if (currentFrame != null) {
             currentFrame.release();
@@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ public class WebSocketFrameAggregator extends MessageToMessageDecoder<WebSocketF
     @Override
     public void handlerRemoved(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception {
         super.handlerRemoved(ctx);
-        // release current frane if it is not null as it may be a left-over as there is not much more we can do in
+        // release current frame if it is not null as it may be a left-over as there is not much more we can do in
         // this case
         if (currentFrame != null) {
             currentFrame.release();
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpClientCodecTest.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpClientCodecTest.java
index 07af776a60..2fa49f443b 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpClientCodecTest.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpClientCodecTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ import io.netty.handler.codec.PrematureChannelClosureException;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.*;
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class HttpClientCodecTest {
@@ -42,6 +44,21 @@ public class HttpClientCodecTest {
         ch.writeOutbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "http://localhost/"));
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(RESPONSE, CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
         ch.finish();
+
+        for (;;) {
+            Object msg = ch.readOutbound();
+            if (msg == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+            release(msg);
+        }
+        for (;;) {
+            Object msg = ch.readInbound();
+            if (msg == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+            release(msg);
+        }
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -52,6 +69,20 @@ public class HttpClientCodecTest {
         ch.writeOutbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "http://localhost/"));
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(CHUNKED_RESPONSE, CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
         ch.finish();
+        for (;;) {
+            Object msg = ch.readOutbound();
+            if (msg == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+            release(msg);
+        }
+        for (;;) {
+            Object msg = ch.readInbound();
+            if (msg == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+            release(msg);
+        }
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -61,8 +92,7 @@ public class HttpClientCodecTest {
 
         assertTrue(ch.writeOutbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET,
                 "http://localhost/")));
-        assertNotNull(ch.readOutbound());
-
+        assertNotNull(releaseLater(ch.readOutbound()));
         try {
             ch.finish();
             fail();
@@ -76,8 +106,16 @@ public class HttpClientCodecTest {
         HttpClientCodec codec = new HttpClientCodec(4096, 8192, 8192, true);
         EmbeddedChannel ch = new EmbeddedChannel(codec);
 
-        ch.writeOutbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "http://localhost/"));
-        ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_RESPONSE, CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
+        ch.writeOutbound(releaseLater(
+                new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "http://localhost/")));
+        assertNotNull(releaseLater(ch.readOutbound()));
+        assertNull(ch.readInbound());
+        ch.writeInbound(releaseLater(
+                Unpooled.copiedBuffer(INCOMPLETE_CHUNKED_RESPONSE, CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1)));
+        assertThat(releaseLater(ch.readInbound()), instanceOf(HttpResponse.class));
+        assertThat(releaseLater(ch.readInbound()), instanceOf(HttpContent.class)); // Chunk 'first'
+        assertThat(releaseLater(ch.readInbound()), instanceOf(HttpContent.class)); // Chunk 'second'
+        assertNull(ch.readInbound());
 
         try {
             ch.finish();
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpContentEncoderTest.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpContentEncoderTest.java
index 83de1bd174..fca40889dd 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpContentEncoderTest.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpContentEncoderTest.java
@@ -59,10 +59,15 @@ public class HttpContentEncoderTest {
         HttpContent chunk;
         chunk = (HttpContent) ch.readOutbound();
         assertThat(chunk.content().toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII), is("3"));
+        chunk.release();
+
         chunk = (HttpContent) ch.readOutbound();
         assertThat(chunk.content().toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII), is("2"));
+        chunk.release();
+
         chunk = (HttpContent) ch.readOutbound();
         assertThat(chunk.content().toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII), is("1"));
+        chunk.release();
 
         chunk = (HttpContent) ch.readOutbound();
         assertThat(chunk.content().isReadable(), is(false));
@@ -98,8 +103,9 @@ public class HttpContentEncoderTest {
 
         chunk = (HttpContent) ch.readOutbound();
         assertThat(chunk.content().toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII), is("1"));
-
         assertThat(chunk, is(instanceOf(HttpContent.class)));
+        chunk.release();
+
         chunk = (HttpContent) ch.readOutbound();
         assertThat(chunk.content().isReadable(), is(false));
         assertThat(chunk, is(instanceOf(LastHttpContent.class)));
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpObjectAggregatorTest.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpObjectAggregatorTest.java
index bae9a03efb..d8696b1f24 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpObjectAggregatorTest.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpObjectAggregatorTest.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class HttpObjectAggregatorTest {
@@ -99,7 +100,6 @@ public class HttpObjectAggregatorTest {
         assertEquals(aggratedMessage.headers().get("X-Test"), Boolean.TRUE.toString());
         assertEquals(aggratedMessage.headers().get("X-Trailer"), Boolean.TRUE.toString());
         checkContentBuffer(aggratedMessage);
-
         assertNull(embedder.readInbound());
     }
 
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ public class HttpObjectAggregatorTest {
         EmbeddedChannel embedder = new EmbeddedChannel(aggr);
         HttpRequest message = new DefaultHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1,
                 HttpMethod.GET, "http://localhost");
-        HttpContent chunk1 = new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("test", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
-        HttpContent chunk2 = new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("test2", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
-        HttpContent chunk3 = new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("test3", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        HttpContent chunk1 = releaseLater(new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("test", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));
+        HttpContent chunk2 = releaseLater(new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("test2", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));
+        HttpContent chunk3 = releaseLater(new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("test3", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));
         HttpContent chunk4 = LastHttpContent.EMPTY_LAST_CONTENT;
 
         assertFalse(embedder.writeInbound(message));
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ public class HttpObjectAggregatorTest {
         }
         assertFalse(embedder.writeInbound(chunk3.copy()));
         assertFalse(embedder.writeInbound(chunk4.copy()));
+        embedder.finish();
     }
 
     @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/multipart/HttpPostRequestDecoderTest.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/multipart/HttpPostRequestDecoderTest.java
index 090b6463b1..d1fbd0fd79 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/multipart/HttpPostRequestDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/multipart/HttpPostRequestDecoderTest.java
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@
  */
 package io.netty.handler.codec.http.multipart;
 
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
+import io.netty.buffer.ByteBufAllocator;
 import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
+import io.netty.buffer.UnpooledByteBufAllocator;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderResult;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.DefaultFullHttpRequest;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.DefaultHttpContent;
@@ -23,15 +26,13 @@ import io.netty.handler.codec.http.DefaultHttpRequest;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaders;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpVersion;
-import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
-import io.netty.buffer.ByteBufAllocator;
-import io.netty.buffer.UnpooledByteBufAllocator;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.LastHttpContent;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.*;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 /** {@link HttpPostRequestDecoder} test case. */
@@ -78,8 +79,8 @@ public class HttpPostRequestDecoderTest {
             // Create decoder instance to test.
             final HttpPostRequestDecoder decoder = new HttpPostRequestDecoder(inMemoryFactory, req);
 
-            decoder.offer(new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(body, CharsetUtil.UTF_8)));
-            decoder.offer(new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.EMPTY_BUFFER));
+            decoder.offer(releaseLater(new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(body, CharsetUtil.UTF_8))));
+            decoder.offer(releaseLater(new DefaultHttpContent(Unpooled.EMPTY_BUFFER)));
 
             // Validate it's enough chunks to decode upload.
             assertTrue(decoder.hasNext());
@@ -90,6 +91,8 @@ public class HttpPostRequestDecoderTest {
             // Validate data has been parsed correctly as it was passed into request.
             assertEquals("Invalid decoded data [data=" + data.replaceAll("\r", "\\\\r") + ", upload=" + upload + ']',
                 data, upload.getString(CharsetUtil.UTF_8));
+            upload.release();
+            decoder.destroy();
         }
     }
 
@@ -122,6 +125,7 @@ public class HttpPostRequestDecoderTest {
         // Create decoder instance to test.
         final HttpPostRequestDecoder decoder = new HttpPostRequestDecoder(inMemoryFactory, req);
         assertFalse(decoder.getBodyHttpDatas().isEmpty());
+        decoder.destroy();
     }
 
     // See https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/1848
@@ -166,19 +170,20 @@ public class HttpPostRequestDecoderTest {
         aSmallBuf.writeBytes(aBytes, 0, split);
         aLargeBuf.writeBytes(aBytes, split, aBytes.length - split);
 
-        aDecoder.offer(new DefaultHttpContent(aSmallBuf));
-        aDecoder.offer(new DefaultHttpContent(aLargeBuf));
+        aDecoder.offer(releaseLater(new DefaultHttpContent(aSmallBuf)));
+        aDecoder.offer(releaseLater(new DefaultHttpContent(aLargeBuf)));
 
         aDecoder.offer(LastHttpContent.EMPTY_LAST_CONTENT);
 
         assertTrue("Should have a piece of data", aDecoder.hasNext());
 
         InterfaceHttpData aDecodedData = aDecoder.next();
-
         assertEquals(InterfaceHttpData.HttpDataType.Attribute, aDecodedData.getHttpDataType());
 
         Attribute aAttr = (Attribute) aDecodedData;
-
         assertEquals(aData, aAttr.getValue());
+
+        aDecodedData.release();
+        aDecoder.destroy();
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest.java
index ef54b12de9..35dd87c665 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest.java
@@ -20,16 +20,21 @@ import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
 import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.TooLongFrameException;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 
 public class WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest {
-    private final ByteBuf content1 = Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Content1", CharsetUtil.UTF_8);
-    private final ByteBuf content2 = Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Content2", CharsetUtil.UTF_8);
-    private final ByteBuf content3 = Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Content3", CharsetUtil.UTF_8);
-    private final ByteBuf aggregatedContent = Unpooled.buffer().writeBytes(content1.duplicate())
-            .writeBytes(content2.duplicate()).writeBytes(content3.duplicate());
+    private final ByteBuf content1 = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(
+            Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Content1", CharsetUtil.UTF_8));
+    private final ByteBuf content2 = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(
+            Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Content2", CharsetUtil.UTF_8));
+    private final ByteBuf content3 = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(
+            Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Content3", CharsetUtil.UTF_8));
+    private final ByteBuf aggregatedContent = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(
+            Unpooled.buffer().writeBytes(content1.duplicate())
+                    .writeBytes(content2.duplicate()).writeBytes(content3.duplicate()));
     @Test
     public void testAggregationBinary() {
         EmbeddedChannel channel = new EmbeddedChannel(new WebSocketFrameAggregator(Integer.MAX_VALUE));
@@ -46,21 +51,25 @@ public class WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest {
         Assert.assertTrue(frame.isFinalFragment());
         Assert.assertEquals(1, frame.rsv());
         Assert.assertEquals(content1, frame.content());
+        frame.release();
 
         PingWebSocketFrame frame2 = (PingWebSocketFrame) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertTrue(frame2.isFinalFragment());
         Assert.assertEquals(0, frame2.rsv());
         Assert.assertEquals(content1, frame2.content());
+        frame2.release();
 
         PongWebSocketFrame frame3 = (PongWebSocketFrame) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertTrue(frame3.isFinalFragment());
         Assert.assertEquals(0, frame3.rsv());
         Assert.assertEquals(content1, frame3.content());
+        frame3.release();
 
         BinaryWebSocketFrame frame4 = (BinaryWebSocketFrame) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertTrue(frame4.isFinalFragment());
         Assert.assertEquals(0, frame4.rsv());
         Assert.assertEquals(aggregatedContent, frame4.content());
+        frame4.release();
 
         Assert.assertNull(channel.readInbound());
     }
@@ -80,28 +89,32 @@ public class WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest {
         TextWebSocketFrame frame = (TextWebSocketFrame) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertTrue(frame.isFinalFragment());
         Assert.assertEquals(1, frame.rsv());
-        Assert.assertEquals(content1.duplicate(), frame.content());
+        Assert.assertEquals(content1, frame.content());
+        frame.release();
 
         PingWebSocketFrame frame2 = (PingWebSocketFrame) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertTrue(frame2.isFinalFragment());
         Assert.assertEquals(0, frame2.rsv());
         Assert.assertEquals(content1, frame2.content());
+        frame2.release();
 
         PongWebSocketFrame frame3 = (PongWebSocketFrame) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertTrue(frame3.isFinalFragment());
         Assert.assertEquals(0, frame3.rsv());
         Assert.assertEquals(content1, frame3.content());
+        frame3.release();
 
         TextWebSocketFrame frame4 = (TextWebSocketFrame) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertTrue(frame4.isFinalFragment());
         Assert.assertEquals(0, frame4.rsv());
         Assert.assertEquals(aggregatedContent, frame4.content());
+        frame4.release();
 
         Assert.assertNull(channel.readInbound());
     }
 
     @Test
-    public void textFrameTooBig() {
+    public void textFrameTooBig() throws Exception {
         EmbeddedChannel channel = new EmbeddedChannel(new WebSocketFrameAggregator(8));
         channel.writeInbound(new BinaryWebSocketFrame(true, 1, content1.copy()));
         channel.writeInbound(new BinaryWebSocketFrame(false, 0, content1.copy()));
@@ -124,5 +137,13 @@ public class WebSocketFrameAggregatorTest {
         }
         channel.writeInbound(new ContinuationWebSocketFrame(false, 0, content2.copy()));
         channel.writeInbound(new ContinuationWebSocketFrame(true, 0, content2.copy()));
+        for (;;) {
+            Object msg = channel.readInbound();
+            if (msg == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+            ReferenceCountUtil.release(msg);
+        }
+        channel.finish();
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker00Test.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker00Test.java
index 8a85e7d30e..2745bc42af 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker00Test.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker00Test.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseDecoder;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseEncoder;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.LastHttpContent;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -41,8 +42,8 @@ public class WebSocketServerHandshaker00Test {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = new EmbeddedChannel(
                 new HttpObjectAggregator(42), new HttpRequestDecoder(), new HttpResponseEncoder());
 
-        FullHttpRequest req = new DefaultFullHttpRequest(
-                HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/chat", Unpooled.copiedBuffer("^n:ds[4U", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        FullHttpRequest req = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(
+                HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/chat", Unpooled.copiedBuffer("^n:ds[4U", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));
 
         req.headers().set(Names.HOST, "server.example.com");
         req.headers().set(Names.UPGRADE, WEBSOCKET.toString().toLowerCase());
@@ -64,5 +65,6 @@ public class WebSocketServerHandshaker00Test {
         LastHttpContent content = (LastHttpContent) ch2.readInbound();
 
         Assert.assertEquals("8jKS'y:G*Co,Wxa-", content.content().toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        content.release();
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker08Test.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker08Test.java
index dfe1ff8664..7a2a5d3627 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker08Test.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker08Test.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestDecoder;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponse;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseDecoder;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseEncoder;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -39,7 +40,8 @@ public class WebSocketServerHandshaker08Test {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = new EmbeddedChannel(
                 new HttpObjectAggregator(42), new HttpRequestDecoder(), new HttpResponseEncoder());
 
-        FullHttpRequest req = new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/chat");
+        FullHttpRequest req = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(
+                new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/chat"));
         req.headers().set(Names.HOST, "server.example.com");
         req.headers().set(Names.UPGRADE, WEBSOCKET.toString().toLowerCase());
         req.headers().set(Names.CONNECTION, "Upgrade");
@@ -60,5 +62,6 @@ public class WebSocketServerHandshaker08Test {
         Assert.assertEquals(
                 "s3pPLMBiTxaQ9kYGzzhZRbK+xOo=", res.headers().get(Names.SEC_WEBSOCKET_ACCEPT));
         Assert.assertEquals("chat", res.headers().get(Names.SEC_WEBSOCKET_PROTOCOL));
+        ReferenceCountUtil.release(res);
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker13Test.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker13Test.java
index 16f2b918fc..d08bb6ae72 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker13Test.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerHandshaker13Test.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestDecoder;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponse;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseDecoder;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseEncoder;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -39,7 +40,8 @@ public class WebSocketServerHandshaker13Test {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = new EmbeddedChannel(
                 new HttpObjectAggregator(42), new HttpRequestDecoder(), new HttpResponseEncoder());
 
-        FullHttpRequest req = new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/chat");
+        FullHttpRequest req = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(
+                new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/chat"));
         req.headers().set(Names.HOST, "server.example.com");
         req.headers().set(Names.UPGRADE, WEBSOCKET.toString().toLowerCase());
         req.headers().set(Names.CONNECTION, "Upgrade");
@@ -60,5 +62,6 @@ public class WebSocketServerHandshaker13Test {
         Assert.assertEquals(
                 "s3pPLMBiTxaQ9kYGzzhZRbK+xOo=", res.headers().get(Names.SEC_WEBSOCKET_ACCEPT));
         Assert.assertEquals("chat", res.headers().get(Names.SEC_WEBSOCKET_PROTOCOL));
+        ReferenceCountUtil.release(res);
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest.java b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest.java
index a201beda3b..91391dd74f 100644
--- a/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest.java
+++ b/codec-http/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/websocketx/WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpMethod;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequest;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestDecoder;
 import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpResponseEncoder;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ public class WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = createChannel(new MockOutboundHandler());
         ChannelHandlerContext handshakerCtx = ch.pipeline().context(WebSocketServerProtocolHandshakeHandler.class);
         writeUpgradeRequest(ch);
-        assertEquals(SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS, responses.remove().getStatus());
+        assertEquals(SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS, ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(responses.remove()).getStatus());
         assertNotNull(WebSocketServerProtocolHandler.getHandshaker(handshakerCtx));
     }
 
@@ -61,10 +62,10 @@ public class WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = createChannel();
 
         writeUpgradeRequest(ch);
-        assertEquals(SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS, responses.remove().getStatus());
+        assertEquals(SWITCHING_PROTOCOLS, ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(responses.remove()).getStatus());
 
         ch.writeInbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/test"));
-        assertEquals(FORBIDDEN, responses.remove().getStatus());
+        assertEquals(FORBIDDEN, ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(responses.remove()).getStatus());
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ public class WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest {
 
         ch.writeInbound(httpRequestWithEntity);
 
-        FullHttpResponse response = responses.remove();
+        FullHttpResponse response = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(responses.remove());
         assertEquals(BAD_REQUEST, response.getStatus());
         assertEquals("not a WebSocket handshake request: missing upgrade", getResponseMessage(response));
     }
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ public class WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest {
 
         ch.writeInbound(httpRequest);
 
-        FullHttpResponse response = responses.remove();
+        FullHttpResponse response = ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater(responses.remove());
         assertEquals(BAD_REQUEST, response.getStatus());
         assertEquals("not a WebSocket request: missing key", getResponseMessage(response));
     }
@@ -162,6 +163,7 @@ public class WebSocketServerProtocolHandlerTest {
         public void channelRead(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg) throws Exception {
             assertNull(content);
             content = "processed: " + ((TextWebSocketFrame) msg).text();
+            ReferenceCountUtil.release(msg);
         }
 
         String getContent() {
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ByteToMessageDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ByteToMessageDecoderTest.java
index 2c16562fd9..60aad2bfb4 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ByteToMessageDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ByteToMessageDecoderTest.java
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ public class ByteToMessageDecoderTest {
         channel.writeInbound(buf.copy());
         ByteBuf b = (ByteBuf) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertEquals(b, buf.skipBytes(1));
+        b.release();
+        buf.release();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -67,5 +69,7 @@ public class ByteToMessageDecoderTest {
         channel.writeInbound(buf.copy());
         ByteBuf b = (ByteBuf) channel.readInbound();
         Assert.assertEquals(b, Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 'b', 'c'}));
+        buf.release();
+        b.release();
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
index b8855d4bcd..6c1cdca7cc 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
@@ -19,10 +19,12 @@ import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
 import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
 import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
@@ -32,9 +34,10 @@ public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = new EmbeddedChannel(new DelimiterBasedFrameDecoder(8192, true,
                 Delimiters.lineDelimiter()));
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("TestLine\r\ng\r\n", Charset.defaultCharset()));
-        assertEquals("TestLine", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
-        assertEquals("g", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
+        assertEquals("TestLine", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
+        assertEquals("g", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
+        ch.finish();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -44,9 +47,10 @@ public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Test", Charset.defaultCharset()));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Line\r\ng\r\n", Charset.defaultCharset()));
-        assertEquals("TestLine", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
-        assertEquals("g", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
+        assertEquals("TestLine", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
+        assertEquals("g", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
+        ch.finish();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -54,9 +58,10 @@ public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = new EmbeddedChannel(new DelimiterBasedFrameDecoder(8192, false,
                 Delimiters.lineDelimiter()));
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("TestLine\r\ng\r\n", Charset.defaultCharset()));
-        assertEquals("TestLine\r\n", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
-        assertEquals("g\r\n", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
+        assertEquals("TestLine\r\n", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
+        assertEquals("g\r\n", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
+        ch.finish();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -66,9 +71,10 @@ public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Test", Charset.defaultCharset()));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Line\r\ng\r\n", Charset.defaultCharset()));
-        assertEquals("TestLine\r\n", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
-        assertEquals("g\r\n", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
+        assertEquals("TestLine\r\n", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
+        assertEquals("g\r\n", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(Charset.defaultCharset()));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
+        ch.finish();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -77,8 +83,11 @@ public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
                 new DelimiterBasedFrameDecoder(8192, true, Delimiters.lineDelimiter()));
 
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("first\r\nsecond\nthird", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
-        assertEquals("first", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
-        assertEquals("second", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        assertEquals("first", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        assertEquals("second", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
+        ch.finish();
+
+        ReferenceCountUtil.release(ch.readInbound());
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
index d055adca1a..fe0ab47117 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
+
 public class LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest {
 
     @Test
@@ -48,11 +50,12 @@ public class LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest {
         b.release();
 
         Assert.assertNull(channel.readInbound());
+        channel.finish();
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testDiscardTooLongFrame2() {
-        ByteBuf buf = Unpooled.buffer();
+        ByteBuf buf = releaseLater(Unpooled.buffer());
         buf.writeInt(32);
         for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++) {
             buf.writeByte(i);
@@ -77,5 +80,6 @@ public class LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest {
         b.release();
 
         Assert.assertNull(channel.readInbound());
+        channel.finish();
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/LineBasedFrameDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/LineBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
index dbca2dba6e..223d99e1ea 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/LineBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/LineBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
@@ -18,9 +18,11 @@ package io.netty.handler.codec;
 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
 import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import static io.netty.buffer.Unpooled.*;
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
@@ -30,9 +32,12 @@ public class LineBasedFrameDecoderTest {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = new EmbeddedChannel(new LineBasedFrameDecoder(8192, true, false));
 
         ch.writeInbound(copiedBuffer("first\r\nsecond\nthird", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
-        assertEquals("first", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
-        assertEquals("second", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        assertEquals("first", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        assertEquals("second", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
+        ch.finish();
+
+        ReferenceCountUtil.release(ch.readInbound());
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -40,9 +45,11 @@ public class LineBasedFrameDecoderTest {
         EmbeddedChannel ch = new EmbeddedChannel(new LineBasedFrameDecoder(8192, false, false));
 
         ch.writeInbound(copiedBuffer("first\r\nsecond\nthird", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
-        assertEquals("first\r\n", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
-        assertEquals("second\n", ((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        assertEquals("first\r\n", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
+        assertEquals("second\n", releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()).toString(CharsetUtil.US_ASCII));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
+        ch.finish();
+        ReferenceCountUtil.release(ch.readInbound());
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -56,7 +63,8 @@ public class LineBasedFrameDecoderTest {
             assertThat(e, is(instanceOf(TooLongFrameException.class)));
         }
 
-        assertThat((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound(), is(copiedBuffer("first\n", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));
+        assertThat(releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()),
+                is(releaseLater(copiedBuffer("first\n", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII))));
         assertThat(ch.finish(), is(false));
     }
 
@@ -72,7 +80,8 @@ public class LineBasedFrameDecoderTest {
             assertThat(e, is(instanceOf(TooLongFrameException.class)));
         }
 
-        assertThat((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound(), is(copiedBuffer("first\r\n", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));
+        assertThat(releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()),
+                is(releaseLater(copiedBuffer("first\r\n", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII))));
         assertThat(ch.finish(), is(false));
     }
 
@@ -89,7 +98,8 @@ public class LineBasedFrameDecoderTest {
 
         assertThat(ch.writeInbound(copiedBuffer("890", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)), is(false));
         assertThat(ch.writeInbound(copiedBuffer("123\r\nfirst\r\n", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)), is(true));
-        assertThat((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound(), is(copiedBuffer("first\r\n", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII)));
+        assertThat(releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()),
+                is(releaseLater(copiedBuffer("first\r\n", CharsetUtil.US_ASCII))));
         assertThat(ch.finish(), is(false));
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderBufferTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderBufferTest.java
index cc48d95c15..20d79a05a6 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderBufferTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderBufferTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
 import io.netty.util.Signal;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class ReplayingDecoderBufferTest {
@@ -30,8 +31,8 @@ public class ReplayingDecoderBufferTest {
      */
     @Test
     public void testGetUnsignedByte() {
-        ReplayingDecoderBuffer buffer = new ReplayingDecoderBuffer(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("TestBuffer",
-                CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
+        ReplayingDecoderBuffer buffer = new ReplayingDecoderBuffer(releaseLater(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("TestBuffer",
+                CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1)));
 
         boolean error;
         int i = 0;
@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@ public class ReplayingDecoderBufferTest {
      */
     @Test
     public void testGetByte() {
-        ReplayingDecoderBuffer buffer = new ReplayingDecoderBuffer(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("TestBuffer",
-                CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
+        ReplayingDecoderBuffer buffer = new ReplayingDecoderBuffer(releaseLater(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("TestBuffer",
+                CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1)));
 
         boolean error;
         int i = 0;
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ public class ReplayingDecoderBufferTest {
      */
     @Test
     public void testGetBoolean() {
-        ByteBuf buf = Unpooled.buffer(10);
+        ByteBuf buf = releaseLater(Unpooled.buffer(10));
         while (buf.isWritable()) {
             buf.writeBoolean(true);
         }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderTest.java
index d46a83a336..7d28dd470f 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/ReplayingDecoderTest.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class ReplayingDecoderTest {
@@ -73,7 +74,8 @@ public class ReplayingDecoderTest {
 
         // "C\n" should be appended to "AB" so that LineDecoder decodes it correctly.
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[]{'C', '\n'}));
-        assertEquals(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 'A', 'B', 'C' }), ch.readInbound());
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 'A', 'B', 'C' })),
+                releaseLater(ch.readInbound()));
 
         ch.finish();
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
@@ -95,12 +97,12 @@ public class ReplayingDecoderTest {
 
         // "C\n" should be appended to "AB" so that LineDecoder decodes it correctly.
         ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[]{'C', '\n' , 'B', '\n'}));
-        assertEquals(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] {'C' }), ch.readInbound());
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] {'C' })), releaseLater(ch.readInbound()));
         assertNull("Must be null as it must only decode one frame", ch.readInbound());
 
         ch.read();
         ch.finish();
-        assertEquals(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] {'B' }), ch.readInbound());
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] {'B' })), releaseLater(ch.readInbound()));
         assertNull(ch.readInbound());
     }
 
@@ -122,6 +124,8 @@ public class ReplayingDecoderTest {
         channel.writeInbound(buf.copy());
         ByteBuf b = (ByteBuf) channel.readInbound();
         assertEquals(b, buf.skipBytes(1));
+        b.release();
+        buf.release();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -145,6 +149,8 @@ public class ReplayingDecoderTest {
         ByteBuf b = (ByteBuf) channel.readInbound();
 
         assertEquals("Expect to have still all bytes in the buffer", b, buf);
+        b.release();
+        buf.release();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -168,5 +174,7 @@ public class ReplayingDecoderTest {
         channel.writeInbound(buf.copy());
         ByteBuf b = (ByteBuf) channel.readInbound();
         assertEquals(b, Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 'b', 'c'}));
+        b.release();
+        buf.release();
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyFramedDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyFramedDecoderTest.java
index 625ac1f1e0..994369b4a1 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyFramedDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyFramedDecoderTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class SnappyFramedDecoderTest {
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ public class SnappyFramedDecoderTest {
         channel.writeInbound(in);
 
         ByteBuf expected = Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 'n', 'e', 't', 't', 'y' });
-        assertEquals(expected, channel.readInbound());
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(expected), releaseLater(channel.readInbound()));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ public class SnappyFramedDecoderTest {
         channel.writeInbound(in);
 
         ByteBuf expected = Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 'n', 'e', 't', 't', 'y' });
-        assertEquals(expected, channel.readInbound());
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(expected), releaseLater(channel.readInbound()));
     }
 
     // The following two tests differ in only the checksum provided for the literal
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyFramedEncoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyFramedEncoderTest.java
index 3cc65ef543..a193ce6c1e 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyFramedEncoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyFramedEncoderTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class SnappyFramedEncoderTest {
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ public class SnappyFramedEncoderTest {
              0x01, 0x09, 0x00, 0x00, 0x6f, -0x68, -0x7e, -0x5e, 'n', 'e', 't', 't', 'y'
         });
 
-        assertEquals(expected, channel.readOutbound());
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(expected), releaseLater(channel.readOutbound()));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ public class SnappyFramedEncoderTest {
                    0x3a, 0x05, 0x00
         });
 
-        assertEquals(expected, channel.readOutbound());
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(expected), releaseLater(channel.readOutbound()));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ public class SnappyFramedEncoderTest {
             actual.addComponent(m);
             actual.writerIndex(actual.writerIndex() + m.readableBytes());
         }
-        assertEquals(expected, actual);
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(expected), releaseLater(actual));
         in.release();
     }
 
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyIntegrationTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyIntegrationTest.java
index 6b54c1d69a..c00db31836 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/SnappyIntegrationTest.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
 import io.netty.buffer.CompositeByteBuf;
 import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.util.Random;
@@ -138,10 +139,27 @@ public class SnappyIntegrationTest {
             }
             assertEquals(in, decompressed);
             decompressed.release();
+            in.release();
         } finally {
             // Avoids memory leak through AbstractChannel.allChannels
             encoder.close();
             decoder.close();
+
+            for (;;) {
+                Object msg = encoder.readOutbound();
+                if (msg == null) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                ReferenceCountUtil.release(msg);
+            }
+
+            for (;;) {
+                Object msg = decoder.readInbound();
+                if (msg == null) {
+                    break;
+                }
+                ReferenceCountUtil.release(msg);
+            }
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/ZlibTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/ZlibTest.java
index bdd893db3a..2d3bcda272 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/ZlibTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/compression/ZlibTest.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
 import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
 import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
+import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import io.netty.util.internal.ThreadLocalRandom;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -93,6 +94,13 @@ public abstract class ZlibTest {
 
         // Closing an encoder channel will generate a footer.
         assertTrue(chEncoder.finish());
+        for (;;) {
+            Object msg = chEncoder.readOutbound();
+            if (msg == null) {
+                break;
+            }
+            ReferenceCountUtil.release(msg);
+        }
         // But, the footer will be decoded into nothing. It's only for validation.
         assertFalse(chDecoderZlib.finish());
 
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/frame/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/frame/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
index 77f7fa0232..b58ce8ce18 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/frame/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/frame/DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import io.netty.handler.codec.TooLongFrameException;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
             }
 
             ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 'A', 0 }));
-            ByteBuf buf = (ByteBuf) ch.readInbound();
+            ByteBuf buf = releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound());
             assertEquals("A", buf.toString(CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
         }
     }
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ public class DelimiterBasedFrameDecoderTest {
             }
 
             ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 'A', 0 }));
-            ByteBuf buf = (ByteBuf) ch.readInbound();
+            ByteBuf buf = releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound());
             assertEquals("A", buf.toString(CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
         }
     }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/frame/LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/frame/LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
index d8e989f949..5f400232f4 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/frame/LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/frame/LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import io.netty.handler.codec.TooLongFrameException;
 import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest {
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ public class LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest {
             }
 
             ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 0, 0, 1, 'A' }));
-            ByteBuf buf = (ByteBuf) ch.readInbound();
+            ByteBuf buf = releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound());
             assertEquals("A", buf.toString(CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
             buf.release();
         }
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ public class LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoderTest {
             }
 
             ch.writeInbound(Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 'A' }));
-            ByteBuf buf = (ByteBuf) ch.readInbound();
+            ByteBuf buf = releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound());
             assertEquals("A", buf.toString(CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
             buf.release();
         }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/protobuf/ProtobufVarint32FrameDecoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/protobuf/ProtobufVarint32FrameDecoderTest.java
index 00cd74ad1c..7de7ab7f50 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/protobuf/ProtobufVarint32FrameDecoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/protobuf/ProtobufVarint32FrameDecoderTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import static io.netty.buffer.Unpooled.*;
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.*;
 import static org.hamcrest.core.IsNull.*;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
@@ -43,8 +44,8 @@ public class ProtobufVarint32FrameDecoderTest {
         assertThat(ch.readInbound(), is(nullValue()));
         ch.writeInbound(wrappedBuffer(b, 3, b.length - 3));
         assertThat(
-                (ByteBuf) ch.readInbound(),
-                is(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 1, 1, 1 })));
+                releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()),
+                is(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(new byte[] { 1, 1, 1, 1 }))));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -60,6 +61,6 @@ public class ProtobufVarint32FrameDecoderTest {
         ch.writeInbound(wrappedBuffer(b, 127, 600));
         assertThat(ch.readInbound(), is(nullValue()));
         ch.writeInbound(wrappedBuffer(b, 727, b.length - 727));
-        assertThat((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound(), is(wrappedBuffer(b, 2, b.length - 2)));
+        assertThat(releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readInbound()), is(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(b, 2, b.length - 2))));
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/protobuf/ProtobufVarint32LengthFieldPrependerTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/protobuf/ProtobufVarint32LengthFieldPrependerTest.java
index 7b946f4148..d234a081e8 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/protobuf/ProtobufVarint32LengthFieldPrependerTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/protobuf/ProtobufVarint32LengthFieldPrependerTest.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import static io.netty.buffer.Unpooled.*;
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.*;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ public class ProtobufVarint32LengthFieldPrependerTest {
     public void testTinyEncode() {
         byte[] b = { 4, 1, 1, 1, 1 };
         ch.writeOutbound(wrappedBuffer(b, 1, b.length - 1));
-        assertThat((ByteBuf) ch.readOutbound(), is(wrappedBuffer(b)));
+        assertThat(releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readOutbound()), is(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(b))));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -49,6 +50,6 @@ public class ProtobufVarint32LengthFieldPrependerTest {
         b[0] = -2;
         b[1] = 15;
         ch.writeOutbound(wrappedBuffer(b, 2, b.length - 2));
-        assertThat((ByteBuf) ch.readOutbound(), is(wrappedBuffer(b)));
+        assertThat(releaseLater((ByteBuf) ch.readOutbound()), is(releaseLater(wrappedBuffer(b))));
     }
 }
diff --git a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/string/StringEncoderTest.java b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/string/StringEncoderTest.java
index 8c95bff302..ee9c98864e 100644
--- a/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/string/StringEncoderTest.java
+++ b/codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/string/StringEncoderTest.java
@@ -34,5 +34,6 @@ public class StringEncoderTest {
         buf.readBytes(data);
         Assert.assertArrayEquals(msg.getBytes(CharsetUtil.UTF_8), data);
         Assert.assertNull(channel.readOutbound());
+        buf.release();
     }
 }
diff --git a/handler/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java b/handler/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java
index 343d3fe5c4..f17d83e8e5 100644
--- a/handler/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java
+++ b/handler/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/stream/ChunkedWriteHandlerTest.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.channels.Channels;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 
+import static io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 public class ChunkedWriteHandlerTest {
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ public class ChunkedWriteHandlerTest {
 
         ChunkedInput<ByteBuf> input = new ChunkedInput<ByteBuf>() {
             private boolean done;
-            private final ByteBuf buffer = Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Test", CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1);
+            private final ByteBuf buffer = releaseLater(Unpooled.copiedBuffer("Test", CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1));
 
             @Override
             public boolean isEndOfInput() throws Exception {
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ public class ChunkedWriteHandlerTest {
         // the listener should have been notified
         assertTrue(listenerNotified.get());
 
-        assertEquals(buffer, ch.readOutbound());
+        assertEquals(releaseLater(buffer), releaseLater(ch.readOutbound()));
         assertNull(ch.readOutbound());
     }
 
@@ -203,6 +204,7 @@ public class ChunkedWriteHandlerTest {
                     i = 0;
                 }
             }
+            buffer.release();
         }
 
         assertEquals(BYTES.length * inputs.length, read);
diff --git a/testsuite/src/test/java/io/netty/testsuite/transport/socket/SocketBufReleaseTest.java b/testsuite/src/test/java/io/netty/testsuite/transport/socket/SocketBufReleaseTest.java
index 261cc12fac..8e8461c17d 100644
--- a/testsuite/src/test/java/io/netty/testsuite/transport/socket/SocketBufReleaseTest.java
+++ b/testsuite/src/test/java/io/netty/testsuite/transport/socket/SocketBufReleaseTest.java
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ public class SocketBufReleaseTest extends AbstractSocketTest {
 
         serverHandler.check();
         clientHandler.check();
+
+        serverHandler.release();
+        clientHandler.release();
     }
 
     private static class BufWriterHandler extends SimpleChannelInboundHandler<Object> {
@@ -104,5 +107,9 @@ public class SocketBufReleaseTest extends AbstractSocketTest {
             latch.await();
             assertEquals(1, buf.refCnt());
         }
+
+        void release() {
+            buf.release();
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/transport/src/test/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelOutboundBufferTest.java b/transport/src/test/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelOutboundBufferTest.java
index 51e9ec2161..e4abbf6b10 100644
--- a/transport/src/test/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelOutboundBufferTest.java
+++ b/transport/src/test/java/io/netty/channel/ChannelOutboundBufferTest.java
@@ -39,11 +39,7 @@ public class ChannelOutboundBufferTest {
             assertNull(b);
         }
         assertEquals(0, buffer.nioBufferCount());
-        for (;;) {
-            if (!buffer.remove()) {
-                break;
-            }
-        }
+        release(buffer);
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -77,11 +73,7 @@ public class ChannelOutboundBufferTest {
                 assertNull(buffers[i]);
             }
         }
-        for (;;) {
-            if (!buffer.remove()) {
-                break;
-            }
-        }
+        release(buffer);
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -105,11 +97,8 @@ public class ChannelOutboundBufferTest {
         for (ByteBuffer nioBuf: nioBuffers) {
             assertEquals(nioBuf, buf.internalNioBuffer(0, buf.readableBytes()));
         }
-        for (;;) {
-            if (!buffer.remove()) {
-                break;
-            }
-        }
+        release(buffer);
+        buf.release();
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -140,6 +129,11 @@ public class ChannelOutboundBufferTest {
                 assertNull(buffers[i]);
             }
         }
+        release(buffer);
+        buf.release();
+    }
+
+    private static void release(ChannelOutboundBuffer buffer) {
         for (;;) {
             if (!buffer.remove()) {
                 break;