pgsql: Prevent corner-case core dump in rfree(). - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Prevent corner-case core dump in rfree().
Date
Msg-id E1SqSd8-0004Pu-1k@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Prevent corner-case core dump in rfree().

rfree() failed to cope with the case that pg_regcomp() had initialized the
regex_t struct but then failed to allocate any memory for re->re_guts (ie,
the first malloc call in pg_regcomp() failed).  It would try to touch the
guts struct anyway, and thus dump core.  This is a sufficiently narrow
corner case that it's not surprising it's never been seen in the field;
but still a bug is a bug, so patch all active branches.

Noted while investigating whether we need to call pg_regfree after a
failure return from pg_regcomp.  Other than this bug, it turns out we
don't, so adjust comments appropriately.

Branch
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REL9_0_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f81d50dc87ae73f2817c67b205fdcf8d266ca3fb

Modified Files
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src/backend/regex/regcomp.c    |   24 +++++++++++++++---------
src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c |    3 +--
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)


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