Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid
Date: 2009-02-18 14:36:56
Message-ID: 2f4958ff0902180636q2ce908fdo1762df88b0502d6d@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> oh, and note that I kind of rulled out linux libc/distro problem, same
>> happens on both centos 4.7 and fedora 9.
>
> That hardly constitutes a wide sample of linux distros ...
>

same thing on debian, well - almost:

==8261== at 0x4023D6E: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:207)
==8261== by 0x43B1930: (within /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
==8261== by 0x43B222B: __nss_database_lookup (in /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
==8261== by 0x6C98F5B: ???
==8261== by 0x6C9B0B4: ???
==8261== by 0x4358ED1: getpwuid_r (in /lib/i686/cmov/libc-2.7.so)
==8261== by 0x417ED3D: (within /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
==8261== by 0x416A7A8: (within /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
==8261== by 0x416E5CA: (within /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
==8261== by 0x416E709: (within /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
==8261== by 0x416EA4E: PQconnectStart (in /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)
==8261== by 0x416EAA1: PQconnectdb (in /usr/lib/libpq.so.5.1)

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GJ

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