BUG #1126: TCP Connection Issues. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      1126
Logged by:          Paul Bone

Email address:      boney@digitalerection.com

PostgreSQL version: 7.4

Operating system:   Debian 3.0-r1 (but I'm following testing),  Linux 2.6.4

Description:        TCP Connection Issues.

Details:

Hi Guys.

in postgres 7.4.2:

When connecting with TCP the backend server process "spins" in mallopt (from
/lib/tls/libc)

When I run postmaster with valgrind I get some interesting output.  the
first message is:

Warning: invalid file descriptor 828 in syscall dup()

during initialization (before postmaster forks).

Then when I connect using psql valgrind running on the postmaster backends
says:

==4666== Invalid read of size 4
==4666==    at 0x3C353492: freeaddrinfo (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
==4666==    by 0x81214E9: (within /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)
==4666==    by 0x81225A0: hba_getauthmethod (in
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)
==4666==    by 0x811F5B7: ClientAuthentication (in
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)
==4666==  Address 0x3C46BC04 is 28 bytes inside a block of size 48 free'd
==4666==    at 0x3C01F918: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:127)
==4666==    by 0x3C35349C: freeaddrinfo (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
==4666==    by 0x81214E9: (within /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)
==4666==    by 0x81225A0: hba_getauthmethod (in
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)
==4666==
==4666== Invalid free() / delete / delete[]
==4666==    at 0x3C01F918: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:127)
==4666==    by 0x3C35349C: freeaddrinfo (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
==4666==    by 0x81214E9: (within /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)
==4666==    by 0x81225A0: hba_getauthmethod (in
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)
==4666==  Address 0x3C46BBE8 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 48 free'd
==4666==    at 0x3C01F918: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:127)
==4666==    by 0x3C35349C: freeaddrinfo (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
==4666==    by 0x81214E9: (within /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)
==4666==    by 0x81225A0: hba_getauthmethod (in
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres)

And then:
==4711== Syscall param write(buf) contains uninitialised or unaddressable
byte(s)
==4711==    at 0x3C3593EE: write (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
==4711==  Address 0x3CF460F0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd
==4655==
==4655== Syscall param write(buf) contains uninitialised or unaddressable
byte(s)
==4655==    at 0x3C3593EE: write (in /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so)
==4655==  Address 0x3C551009 is not stack'd, malloc'd or free'd

There are also mentions of supressed errors.

Also while it spins (before the cleint gets bored and goes away).  it isn't
making any syscalls.  it's just in mallopt() which dosn't occur with valgrid
as valgrind uses it's own malloc libraries.

Thankyou.

If this bug-reporting software dosn't keep me up to date with this.  I would
like to be kept up to date.  Thanks.

Paul