Re: segmentation fault when cassert enabled - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: segmentation fault when cassert enabled
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Msg-id 18714.1572020918@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to segmentation fault when cassert enabled  (Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>)
Responses Re: segmentation fault when cassert enabled
Re: segmentation fault when cassert enabled
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Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com> writes:
> When investigating for the bug reported in thread "logical replication -
> negative bitmapset member not allowed", I found a way to seg fault postgresql
> only when cassert is enabled.
> ...
> I hadn't time to digg further yet. However, I don't understand why this crash
> is triggered when cassert is enabled.

Most likely, it's not so much assertions that provoke the crash as
CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY, ie the actual problem here is use of already-freed
memory.

            regards, tom lane



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