Re: Missing checks when malloc returns NULL...

From: Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Missing checks when malloc returns NULL...
Date: 2016-08-29 14:13:15
Message-ID: 20160829141315.GB8340@e733
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> Hello, Michael
>
> > I don't know how you did it, but this email has visibly broken the
> > original thread. Did you change the topic name?
>
> I'm very sorry for this. I had no local copy of this thread. So I wrote a
> new email with the same subject hoping it will be OK. Apparently right
> In-Reply-To header is also required.
>
> > if (prodesc->user_proname == NULL || prodesc->internal_proname == NULL)
> > + {
> > + free(prodesc);
>
> I think that prodesc->user_proname and prodesc->internal_proname should
> also be freed if they are not NULL's.
>
> > By the way maybe someone knows other procedures besides malloc, realloc
> > and strdup that require special attention?
>
> I recalled that there is also calloc(). I've found four places that use
> calloc() and look suspicious to me (see attachment). What do you think -
> are these bugs or not?

I've just realized that there is also malloc-compatible ShmemAlloc().
Apparently it's return value sometimes is not properly checked too. See
attachment.

--
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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shmem.txt text/plain 2.2 KB

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