Re: memory leak in dbase_redo()

> On Oct 9, 2025, at 22:58, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 08:08:05AM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
>> And I think it is right. XLOG_DBASE_CREATE_FILE_COPY is careful to
>> pfree(parent_path), but XLOG_DBASE_CREATE_WAL_LOG isn't.
> 
> It looks like this was introduced by commit 9e4f914, which was
> back-patched, but the code path in question first appears in v15.  So,
> presumably something like the following needs to be back-patched that far.
> I can take care of it unless someone else wants it.
> 
> diff --git a/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c b/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
> index 2793fd83771..4d65e8c46c2 100644
> --- a/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
> +++ b/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
> @@ -3375,6 +3375,7 @@ dbase_redo(XLogReaderState *record)
>         parent_path = pstrdup(dbpath);
>         get_parent_directory(parent_path);
>         recovery_create_dbdir(parent_path, true);
> +        pfree(parent_path);
> 
>         /* Create the database directory with the version file. */
>         CreateDirAndVersionFile(dbpath, xlrec->db_id, xlrec->tablespace_id,
> 

pstrdup() allocates memory from current context for dest string, so the memory it returns should be free-ed. LGTM.

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Chao Li (Evan)
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