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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2012-07-15 13:28:09 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2012-07-15 13:28:09 -0400
commitd6270e2df9f5fc8803d8171e0aad98a55257f921 (patch)
tree79e842d05143d144a7a7b7e6be64ce55a45249a0 /src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c
parentd066cc548de7f21e84aeb27bd43388ba82534759 (diff)
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Prevent corner-case core dump in rfree().
rfree() failed to cope with the case that pg_regcomp() had initialized the regex_t struct but then failed to allocate any memory for re->re_guts (ie, the first malloc call in pg_regcomp() failed). It would try to touch the guts struct anyway, and thus dump core. This is a sufficiently narrow corner case that it's not surprising it's never been seen in the field; but still a bug is a bug, so patch all active branches. Noted while investigating whether we need to call pg_regfree after a failure return from pg_regcomp. Other than this bug, it turns out we don't, so adjust comments appropriately.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c
index c590f7e950e..67e205d0816 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/regexp.c
@@ -187,9 +187,8 @@ RE_compile_and_cache(text *text_re, int cflags, Oid collation)
if (regcomp_result != REG_OKAY)
{
- /* re didn't compile */
+ /* re didn't compile (no need for pg_regfree, if so) */
pg_regerror(regcomp_result, &re_temp.cre_re, errMsg, sizeof(errMsg));
- /* XXX should we pg_regfree here? */
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_REGULAR_EXPRESSION),
errmsg("invalid regular expression: %s", errMsg)));