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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2013-04-04 12:56:21 -0400
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2013-04-04 12:56:25 -0400
commit39d4c764da3d4dd74238d82b0e5ccd1030ebf9f7 (patch)
tree51c7a50f41c79c905fef0c001632765e4e160b0b
parentc99e0d382f811cf0fbad50e912183ed4eb7b8de8 (diff)
psql: fix startup crash caused by PSQLRC containing a tilde
'strdup' the PSQLRC environment variable value before calling a routine that might free() it. Backpatch to 9.2, where the bug first appeared.
-rw-r--r--src/bin/psql/common.c6
-rw-r--r--src/bin/psql/common.h2
-rw-r--r--src/bin/psql/startup.c11
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/common.c b/src/bin/psql/common.c
index c804148cd57..df8c80a1b26 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/common.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/common.c
@@ -1617,11 +1617,11 @@ session_username(void)
* substitute '~' with HOME or '~username' with username's home dir
*
*/
-char *
+void
expand_tilde(char **filename)
{
if (!filename || !(*filename))
- return NULL;
+ return;
/*
* WIN32 doesn't use tilde expansion for file names. Also, it uses tilde
@@ -1669,5 +1669,5 @@ expand_tilde(char **filename)
}
#endif
- return *filename;
+ return;
}
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/common.h b/src/bin/psql/common.h
index 8037cbc0a0d..cfe0dadfd66 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/common.h
+++ b/src/bin/psql/common.h
@@ -61,6 +61,6 @@ extern bool is_superuser(void);
extern bool standard_strings(void);
extern const char *session_username(void);
-extern char *expand_tilde(char **filename);
+extern void expand_tilde(char **filename);
#endif /* COMMON_H */
diff --git a/src/bin/psql/startup.c b/src/bin/psql/startup.c
index 9a6306b8cf2..b30639395ec 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/startup.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/startup.c
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ process_psqlrc(char *argv0)
char rc_file[MAXPGPATH];
char my_exec_path[MAXPGPATH];
char etc_path[MAXPGPATH];
- char *envrc;
+ char *envrc = getenv("PSQLRC");
find_my_exec(argv0, my_exec_path);
get_etc_path(my_exec_path, etc_path);
@@ -599,12 +599,13 @@ process_psqlrc(char *argv0)
snprintf(rc_file, MAXPGPATH, "%s/%s", etc_path, SYSPSQLRC);
process_psqlrc_file(rc_file);
- envrc = getenv("PSQLRC");
-
if (envrc != NULL && strlen(envrc) > 0)
{
- expand_tilde(&envrc);
- process_psqlrc_file(envrc);
+ /* might need to free() this */
+ char *envrc_alloc = pg_strdup(envrc);
+
+ expand_tilde(&envrc_alloc);
+ process_psqlrc_file(envrc_alloc);
}
else if (get_home_path(home))
{