Re: [HACKERS] [sqlsmith] crash in RestoreLibraryState duringlow-memory testing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [sqlsmith] crash in RestoreLibraryState duringlow-memory testing
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYFUeN_ifa9w0GccT+-NOXB=LpQPDixF+2wR9U-sy0PDA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [sqlsmith] crash in RestoreLibraryState during low-memory testing  (Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich@gmx.de>)
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On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:04 AM, Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich@gmx.de> wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Presumably somebody could dig into the libc source code and prove or
>> disprove this, though it would sure help to know exactly what platform
>> and version Andreas is testing on.
>
> This is the code in glibc-2.24 around the crash site:
>
> ,----[ glibc-2.24/elf/dl-load.c:442 ]
> |       to_free = cp = expand_dynamic_string_token (l, cp, 1);
> |
> |       size_t len = strlen (cp);
> `----
>
> …while expand_dynamic_string_token will indeed return NULL on a failed
> malloc.  Code in the most recent glibc looks the same, so I'll carry
> this issue over to the glibc bugzilla then.

You know, I was pretty impressed with sqlsmith when it was only
finding bugs in PostgreSQL.  Finding bugs in glibc is even more
impressive.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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