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From Andres Freund
Subject pgsql: ltree: Zero padding bytes when allocating memory for externally
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Msg-id E1adQp1-00086i-HL@gemulon.postgresql.org
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ltree: Zero padding bytes when allocating memory for externally visible data.

ltree/ltree_gist/ltxtquery's headers stores data at MAXALIGN alignment,
requiring some padding bytes. So far we left these uninitialized. Zero
those by using palloc0.

Author: Andres Freund
Reported-By: Andres Freund / valgrind / buildarm animal skink
Backpatch: 9.1-

Branch
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REL9_4_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8457c69feaf572a2d3025e47b6bed92bb8cb719b

Modified Files
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contrib/ltree/_ltree_gist.c  | 14 +++++++-------
contrib/ltree/_ltree_op.c    |  8 ++++----
contrib/ltree/ltree_gist.c   | 10 +++++-----
contrib/ltree/ltree_op.c     |  6 +++---
contrib/ltree/ltxtquery_io.c |  2 +-
5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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