Thread: Avoid possible memory leak (src/common/rmtree.c)

> On 25 Jul 2023, at 16:31, Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com> wrote:

> rmtree function can leak 64 bytes per call,
> when it can't open a directory.

Skimming the tree there doesn't seem to be any callers which aren't exiting or
ereporting on failure so the real-world impact seems low.  That being said,
silencing static analyzers could be reason enough to delay allocation.

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Daniel Gustafsson

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 04:45:22PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Skimming the tree there doesn't seem to be any callers which aren't exiting or
> ereporting on failure so the real-world impact seems low.  That being said,
> silencing static analyzers could be reason enough to delay allocation.

A different reason would be out-of-core code that uses rmtree() in a
memory context where the leak would be an issue if facing a failure
continuously?  Delaying the allocation after the OPENDIR() seems like
a good practice anyway.
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Michael

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 08:10:55PM -0300, Ranier Vilela wrote:
> Thanks for the commit, Michael.

Sorry for the lack of update here.  For the sake of the archives, this
is f1e9f6b.
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Michael