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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid
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Msg-id 9261.1234979226@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid  (Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>)
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=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= <gryzman@gmail.com> writes:
> same thing on debian, well - almost:

> ==8261==    at 0x4023D6E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
> ==8261==    by 0x43B1930: (within /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
> ==8261==    by 0x43B222B: __nss_database_lookup (in /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
> ==8261==    by 0x6C98F5B: ???
> ==8261==    by 0x6C9B0B4: ???
> ==8261==    by 0x4358ED1: getpwuid_r (in /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
> ==8261==    by 0x417ED3D: (within /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
> ==8261==    by 0x416A7A8: (within /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
> ==8261==    by 0x416E5CA: (within /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
> ==8261==    by 0x416E709: (within /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
> ==8261==    by 0x416EA4E: PQconnectStart (in /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
> ==8261==    by 0x416EAA1: PQconnectdb (in /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)

[ shrug... ]  You're bugging the wrong people about this.  A leak
inside getpwuid_r is a glibc bug, not our bug.

            regards, tom lane

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