Re: pgcrypto: fix memory leak in openssl.c - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Marko Kreen
Subject Re: pgcrypto: fix memory leak in openssl.c
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Msg-id e51f66da0602200730y48bc9601m5099015de26947d3@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: pgcrypto: fix memory leak in openssl.c  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2/20/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Marko Kreen" <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 2/18/06, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> pgcrypto crypt()/md5 and hmac() leak memory when compiled against
> >> OpenSSL as openssl.c digest ->reset will do two DigestInit calls
> >> against a context.  This happened to work with OpenSSL 0.9.6
> >> but not with 0.9.7+.
>
> > Ugh, seems I read the old code slightly wrong.  The leak happens
> > also with regular digest(), although it will leak only 1 context
> > instance, not the 1000+ as the crypt-md5 does.
>
> I'm confused --- does this mean that the patch you sent recently
> needs further work?

No, it's fine.  As I did not 'fix' old code but replaced it.

It's just that I gave wrong answer to the question 'who is affected?'

--
marko

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