Re: GetTokenInformation() and FreeSid() at port/exec.c

Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>

From: Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>
To: TAKATSUKA Haruka <harukat@sraoss.co.jp>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-06-23T03:55:36Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
TAKATSUKA Haruka wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> We found the unbalance of xxAlloc and xxFree at AddUserToDacl() in
> src/port/exec.c (of current HEAD code).
> 
> psidUser is a pointer of the element of a TOKEN_USER structure
> allocated by  HeapAlloc().  The FreeSid() frees a SID allocated by
> AllocateAndInitializeSid().  I think that it is correct to use
> HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, pTokenUser).
> 
> At present, a specific error, crash or trouble seems not to have happened.
> 
> 
> src/port/exec.c:748	 AddUserToDacl()
> src/port/exec.c:841      GetUserSid()
> 		pTokenUser = (PTOKEN_USER) HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, dwLength);
> 
> src/port/exec.c:807      AddUserToDacl()
> 	FreeSid(psidUser);

I quickly poked around and found what I believe to be two memory issues.

1. GetUserSid() uses HeapAlloc() to allocate a TOKEN_USER, but never calls 
HeapFree() if the function succeeds.  Instead, it pulls out the token's SID and 
returns it.  This is a memory leak.

2. The SID returned by GetUserSid() is incorrectly being passed to FreeSid() 
within AddUserToDacl()'s cleanup section.  This memory belongs to the TOKEN_USER 
allocated by HeapAlloc() in GetUserSid(), it cannot be passed to FreeSid.

Quick question, Why HeapAlloc and LocalAlloc.  Why not use malloc?

One solution would be to return a copy of the SID from GetUserSid and HeapFree 
the TOKEN_USER.

Replace GetUserSid() line 869

*ppSidUser = pTokenUser->User.Sid;
return TRUE;

With the below (error checking excluded)

DWORD len = GetLengthSid(pTokenUser->User.Sid)
*ppSidUser = (PSID) HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, len);
CopySid(len, *ppSidUser, pTokenUser->User.Sid);

// SID is copied, free TOKEN_USER
HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, pTokenUser);
return TRUE;

Also, AddUserToDacl() line 807

FreeSid(psidUser) should be HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, psidUser)

in order to work with my suggested changes in GetUserSid().

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