0001-Fix-NULL-pointer-dereference-in-tuplesort.c.patch

From ce24bff1aad894b607ee1ce67757efe72c5acb93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 10:14:02 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix NULL pointer dereference in tuplesort.c

This could cause a crash when an external datum tuplesort of a
pass-by-value type required multiple passes.
---
 src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c
index cbaf009..e1e692d 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c
@@ -2800,7 +2800,8 @@ mergeonerun(Tuplesortstate *state)
 		WRITETUP(state, destTape, &state->memtuples[0]);
 
 		/* recycle the slot of the tuple we just wrote out, for the next read */
-		RELEASE_SLAB_SLOT(state, state->memtuples[0].tuple);
+		if (state->memtuples[0].tuple)
+			RELEASE_SLAB_SLOT(state, state->memtuples[0].tuple);
 
 		/*
 		 * pull next tuple from the tape, and replace the written-out tuple in
-- 
2.7.4