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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2015-09-18 13:55:17 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2015-09-18 13:55:17 -0400
commitb8431080851e64f5bf9efebc866fc02f0d57f56f (patch)
treea2878800ce086d8a786f570c4b6a125f170284f9 /src/include/regex/regguts.h
parent508435f9d33a895bcab194bbcef1ad0232216285 (diff)
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/regex/regguts.h')
-rw-r--r--src/include/regex/regguts.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/regex/regguts.h b/src/include/regex/regguts.h
index b173c98e4ea..db3a89d785a 100644
--- a/src/include/regex/regguts.h
+++ b/src/include/regex/regguts.h
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ struct guts
size_t nsub; /* copy of re_nsub */
struct subre *tree;
struct cnfa search; /* for fast preliminary search */
- int ntree; /* number of subre's, less one */
+ int ntree; /* number of subre's, plus one */
struct colormap cmap;
int FUNCPTR(compare, (const chr *, const chr *, size_t));
struct subre *lacons; /* lookahead-constraint vector */