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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2021-03-18 20:50:56 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2021-03-18 22:22:47 -0400
commit415ffdc2205e209b6a73fb42a3fdd6e57e16c7b2 (patch)
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Don't run RelationInitTableAccessMethod in a long-lived context.
Some code paths in this function perform syscache lookups, which can lead to table accesses and possibly leakage of cruft into the caller's context. If said context is CacheMemoryContext, we eventually will have visible bloat. But fixing this is no harder than moving one memory context switch step. (The other callers don't have a problem.) Andres Freund and I independently found this via valgrind testing. Back-patch to v12 where this code was added. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210317023101.anvejcfotwka6gaa@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3816764.1616104288@sss.pgh.pa.us
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/utils/cache')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
index b0e06c037f4..20be094f460 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c
@@ -3543,6 +3543,13 @@ RelationBuildLocalRelation(const char *relname,
rel->rd_rel->relam = accessmtd;
+ /*
+ * RelationInitTableAccessMethod will do syscache lookups, so we mustn't
+ * run it in CacheMemoryContext. Fortunately, the remaining steps don't
+ * require a long-lived current context.
+ */
+ MemoryContextSwitchTo(oldcxt);
+
if (relkind == RELKIND_RELATION ||
relkind == RELKIND_SEQUENCE ||
relkind == RELKIND_TOASTVALUE ||
@@ -3566,11 +3573,6 @@ RelationBuildLocalRelation(const char *relname,
*/
EOXactListAdd(rel);
- /*
- * done building relcache entry.
- */
- MemoryContextSwitchTo(oldcxt);
-
/* It's fully valid */
rel->rd_isvalid = true;