Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: leak in libpq, getpwuid
Date: 2009-02-18 17:47:06
Message-ID: 9261.1234979226@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 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)

[ shrug... ] You're bugging the wrong people about this. A leak
inside getpwuid_r is a glibc bug, not our bug.

regards, tom lane

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