Avoid leaking duplicated file descriptors in corner cases.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Avoid leaking duplicated file descriptors in corner cases. pg_dump's compression modules had variations on the theme of fp = fdopen(dup(fd), mode); if (fp == NULL) // fail, reporting errno which is problematic for two reasons. First, if dup() succeeds but fdopen() fails, we'd leak the duplicated FD. That's not important at present since the program will just exit immediately after failure anyway; but perhaps someday we'll try to continue, making the resource leak potentially significant. Second, if dup() fails then fdopen() will overwrite the useful errno (perhaps EMFILE) with a misleading value EBADF, making it difficult to understand what went wrong. Fix both issues by testing for dup() failure before proceeding to the next call. These failures are sufficiently unlikely, and the consequences minor enough, that this doesn't seem worth the effort to back-patch. But let's fix it in HEAD. Author: Jianghua Yang <yjhjstz@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/62bbe34d-2315-4b42-b768-56d901aa83e1@gmail.com
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/bin/pg_dump/compress_gzip.c | modified | +16 −4 |
| src/bin/pg_dump/compress_lz4.c | modified | +22 −5 |
| src/bin/pg_dump/compress_none.c | modified | +16 −4 |
| src/bin/pg_dump/compress_zstd.c | modified | +22 −6 |
Discussion
- [PATCH] Fix fd leak in pg_dump compression backends when dup()+fdopen() fails 6 messages · 2026-03-19