pgsql: Fix low-probability memory leak in regex execution.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix low-probability memory leak in regex execution.
Date: 2015-09-18 17:55:44
Message-ID: E1Zczsu-0005N3-MA@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix low-probability memory leak in regex execution.

After an internal failure in shortest() or longest() while pinning down the
exact location of a match, find() forgot to free the DFA structure before
returning. This is pretty unlikely to occur, since we just successfully
ran the "search" variant of the DFA; but it could happen, and it would
result in a session-lifespan memory leak since this code uses malloc()
directly. Problem seems to have been aboriginal in Spencer's library,
so back-patch all the way.

In passing, correct a thinko in a comment I added awhile back about the
meaning of the "ntree" field.

I happened across these issues while comparing our code to Tcl's version
of the library.

Branch
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master

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d9c0c728afe734b7087dbb9a4bc16d5b682d139d

Modified Files
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src/backend/regex/regcomp.c | 2 +-
src/backend/regex/regexec.c | 6 +++++-
src/include/regex/regguts.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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