Re: Invalid pg_hba.conf => Postgres crash

Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> writes:
> host all all 127.0.0.1 trust sameuser # HANG
> the future connections will hang leaving a postgres process
> running
> - Inserting the following line instead will crash postgres
> host all 127.0.0.1 trust sameuser # CRASH

I was able to reproduce the crash but not the hang. Would you see if
the attached patch fixes both symptoms on your machine?

regards, tom lane

Index: ip.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/libpq/ip.c,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -c -r1.23 ip.c
*** ip.c 12 Sep 2003 20:18:51 -0000 1.23
--- ip.c 24 Apr 2004 20:09:21 -0000
***************
*** 67,74 ****
*/
int
getaddrinfo_all(const char *hostname, const char *servname,
! const struct addrinfo * hintp, struct addrinfo ** result)
{
#ifdef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS
if (hintp != NULL && hintp->ai_family == AF_UNIX)
return getaddrinfo_unix(servname, hintp, result);
--- 67,77 ----
*/
int
getaddrinfo_all(const char *hostname, const char *servname,
! const struct addrinfo *hintp, struct addrinfo **result)
{
+ /* not all versions of getaddrinfo() zero *result on failure */
+ *result = NULL;
+
#ifdef HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS
if (hintp != NULL && hintp->ai_family == AF_UNIX)
return getaddrinfo_unix(servname, hintp, result);