Re: pgAdmin III: crash when trying to save edited pg_hba.conf

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Guillaume Lelarge
<guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> Le 28/01/2011 10:18, Nikhil S a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> The following set of operations induce a crash in the latest git code base:
>>
>> 1. Open pgAdmin III
>> 2. Go to File Menu->Open Postgressql.conf
>> 3. From data folder select pg_hba.conf file and open it
>> 4. The file opens successfully
>> 5. Now select any setting ("port" for example) and add a Value and Comment
>> to it
>> 6. A save of this induces a crash
>>
>> The issue appears to be in the dlgMainConfig::dlgMainConfig() function. If
>> there is no old setting present, the item->newLine object uses the default
>> constructor. This does not set the item->newLine->item field at all.
>>
>> While eventually saving this via frmMainConfig::WriteFile() function, we end
>> up accessing the null "item" field causing this segmentation fault. The fix
>> is to set this field properly inside the dlgMainConfig call above. Is my
>> reasoning and the attached fix correct? Please let me know.
>>
>
> Seems good enough. Commited. Thanks a lot :)

Thanks Guillaume. I had put this on my TODO :-)

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