Avoid possibly-theoretical OOM crash hazard in hash_create().
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Avoid possibly-theoretical OOM crash hazard in hash_create(). One place in hash_create() used DynaHashAlloc() as a convenient shorthand for MemoryContextAlloc(). That was fine when it was written, but it stopped being fine when 9c911ec06 changed DynaHashAlloc() to use MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM (mea culpa). Change the code to call plain MemoryContextAlloc() as intended. I think that this bug may be unreachable in practice, since we now always create AllocSets with some space already allocated, so that an OOM failure here for a non-shared hash table should be impossible (with a hash table name of reasonable length anyway). And there aren't enough shared hash tables to make a crash for one of those probable. Nonetheless it's clearly not operating as designed, so back-patch to v16 where 9c911ec06 came in. Reported-by: Maksim Korotkov <m.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/219bdccd460510efaccf90b57e5e5ef2@postgrespro.ru Backpatch-through: 16
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
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| src/backend/utils/hash/dynahash.c | modified | +2 −1 |
Discussion
- [PATCH] dynahash: add memory allocation failure check 8 messages · 2025-04-23 → 2025-04-24