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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2015-09-18 13:55:17 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2015-09-18 13:55:17 -0400
commit28c396134e0640e21610a984b89393825753b30d (patch)
treedc9cca887e097255d5014b30ee2f4dccf332eb9b /src/backend/regex/regexec.c
parentdad7ea7e4dcc9ebdfb5480aa91cd1424135214e9 (diff)
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Fix low-probability memory leak in regex execution.
After an internal failure in shortest() or longest() while pinning down the exact location of a match, find() forgot to free the DFA structure before returning. This is pretty unlikely to occur, since we just successfully ran the "search" variant of the DFA; but it could happen, and it would result in a session-lifespan memory leak since this code uses malloc() directly. Problem seems to have been aboriginal in Spencer's library, so back-patch all the way. In passing, correct a thinko in a comment I added awhile back about the meaning of the "ntree" field. I happened across these issues while comparing our code to Tcl's version of the library.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/regex/regexec.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/regex/regexec.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/regex/regexec.c b/src/backend/regex/regexec.c
index ee9984d6c07..7b98b18da7e 100644
--- a/src/backend/regex/regexec.c
+++ b/src/backend/regex/regexec.c
@@ -326,7 +326,11 @@ find(struct vars * v,
(chr **) NULL, &hitend);
else
end = longest(v, d, begin, v->stop, &hitend);
- NOERR();
+ if (ISERR())
+ {
+ freedfa(d);
+ return v->err;
+ }
if (hitend && cold == NULL)
cold = begin;
if (end != NULL)