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* pgsql: Fix AlignedAllocRealloc to cope sanely with OOM.
@ 2025-05-23 15:47  Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2025-05-23 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Fix AlignedAllocRealloc to cope sanely with OOM.

If the inner allocation call returns NULL, we should restore the
previous state and return NULL.  Previously this code pfree'd
the old chunk anyway, which is surely wrong.

Also, make it call MemoryContextAllocationFailure rather than
summarily returning NULL.  The fact that we got control back from the
inner call proves that MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM was passed, so this change
is just cosmetic, but someday it might be less so.

This is just a latent bug at present: AFAICT no in-core callers use
this function at all, let alone call it with MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM.
Still, it's the kind of bug that might bite back-patched code pretty
hard someday, so let's back-patch to v17 where the bug was introduced
(by commit 743112a2e).

Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/285483.1746756246@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 17

Branch
------
master

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6aa33afe6da1ce5e6a9c68900727db4621f899cd

Modified Files
--------------
src/backend/utils/mmgr/alignedalloc.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)



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* pgsql: Fix AlignedAllocRealloc to cope sanely with OOM.
@ 2025-05-23 15:47  Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread

From: Tom Lane @ 2025-05-23 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Fix AlignedAllocRealloc to cope sanely with OOM.

If the inner allocation call returns NULL, we should restore the
previous state and return NULL.  Previously this code pfree'd
the old chunk anyway, which is surely wrong.

Also, make it call MemoryContextAllocationFailure rather than
summarily returning NULL.  The fact that we got control back from the
inner call proves that MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM was passed, so this change
is just cosmetic, but someday it might be less so.

This is just a latent bug at present: AFAICT no in-core callers use
this function at all, let alone call it with MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM.
Still, it's the kind of bug that might bite back-patched code pretty
hard someday, so let's back-patch to v17 where the bug was introduced
(by commit 743112a2e).

Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/285483.1746756246@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 17

Branch
------
REL_17_STABLE

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ac3afd1d00795656dc08431d2bbebf7eccfb5823

Modified Files
--------------
src/backend/utils/mmgr/alignedalloc.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)



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