Re: freeing LDAPMessage in CheckLDAPAuth

On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 3:58 AM Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 12:25 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
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>> On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 01:52:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> > I can't get too excited about this.  All of the error exit paths in
>> > backend authentication code will lead immediately to process exit, so
>> > the possibility of some memory being leaked really has no consequences
>> > worth worrying about.  If we *were* worried about it, sprinkling a few
>> > more ldap_msgfree() calls into the existing code would hardly make it
>> > more bulletproof.
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>> Even if this is not critical in the backend for this authentication
>> path, I'd like to think that it is still a good practice for future
>> code so as anything code-pasted around would get the call.  So I see
>> no reason to not put smth on HEAD at least.
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> Hi,
> Here is updated patch as you suggested in your previous email.
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> Thanks
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Hi,
Please take a look at patch v3.

Thanks