Thread: pgsql: Make plperl safe against functions that are redefined while runn

pgsql: Make plperl safe against functions that are redefined while runn

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Make plperl safe against functions that are redefined while running.

validate_plperl_function() supposed that it could free an old
plperl_proc_desc struct immediately upon detecting that it was stale.
However, if a plperl function is called recursively, this could result
in deleting the struct out from under an outer invocation, leading to
misbehavior or crashes.  Add a simple reference-count mechanism to
ensure that such structs are freed only when the last reference goes
away.

Per investigation of bug #7516 from Marko Tiikkaja.  I am not certain
that this error explains his report, because he says he didn't have
any recursive calls --- but it's hard to see how else it could have
crashed right there.  In any case, this definitely fixes some problems
in the area.

Back-patch to all active branches.

Branch
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REL9_1_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ef06dca97504cda3cff852314532338c86d3ccc5

Modified Files
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src/pl/plperl/expected/plperl.out |   18 ++++++
src/pl/plperl/plperl.c            |  104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
src/pl/plperl/sql/plperl.sql      |   10 ++++
3 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)