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Re: BUG #18910: DEREF_OF_NULL.RET Pointer, returned from function 'palloc0' at simplehash.h:1080, may be NULL - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #18910: DEREF_OF_NULL.RET Pointer, returned from function 'palloc0' at simplehash.h:1080, may be NULL
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Msg-id 2643584.1746456187@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG #18910: DEREF_OF_NULL.RET Pointer, returned from function 'palloc0' at simplehash.h:1080, may be NULL  (PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> In the file /src/include/lib/simplehash.h, within the SH_STAT() function,
> there is a call to palloc0() that may return NULL:
> uint32 *collisions = (uint32 *) palloc0(tb->size * sizeof(uint32));

palloc and its variants do not return NULL, unless you specify
MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM, which this call does not.

            regards, tom lane

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