fix minor memory error in initdb

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: fix minor memory error in initdb
Date: 2004-01-31 22:09:21
Message-ID: 87isir3h4e.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com
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The new C version of initdb presently provokes the following valgrind
warnings:

==15366==
==15366== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==15366== at 0x8049713: mkdir_p (initdb.c:556)
==15366== by 0x8049C8E: mkdatadir (initdb.c:812)
==15366== by 0x804C833: main (initdb.c:2370)
==15366== Invalid read of size 1
==15366== at 0x8049710: mkdir_p (initdb.c:556)
==15366== by 0x8049C8E: mkdatadir (initdb.c:812)
==15366== by 0x804C957: main (initdb.c:2418)
==15366== Address 0x4177D8D3 is 0 bytes after a block of size 19 alloc'd
==15366== at 0x4002CBEE: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:160)
==15366== by 0x8049084: xmalloc (initdb.c:249)
==15366== by 0x8049C39: mkdatadir (initdb.c:804)
==15366== by 0x804C957: main (initdb.c:2418)

I doubt the mistake that causes these warnings would cause any
problems in practise (mkdir_p() reads one past the end of the string
passed into it, but doesn't actually change any meaningful state based
on what it reads), but being valgrind-clean is a good thing, so I've
applied the attached one-line patch to fix this.

-Neil

Attachment Content-Type Size
initdb-mem-read-fix-1.patch text/x-patch 612 bytes

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