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authorTom Lane2024-09-08 23:14:40 +0000
committerTom Lane2024-09-08 23:14:40 +0000
commit2e62fa62d6745ba3bcb0a517d002aff1f3cdefb7 (patch)
tree89e611fd20a4e87b7002cde29544a0bc3285a368 /src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c
parentd8df7ac5c04cd17bf13bd3123dcfcaf8007c6280 (diff)
Avoid core dump after getpwuid_r failure.
Looking up a nonexistent user ID would lead to a null pointer dereference. That's unlikely to happen here, but perhaps not impossible. Thinko in commit 4d5111b3f, noticed by Coverity.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c')
-rw-r--r--src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c
index 4904d38ce1c..20d3427e943 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ pg_fe_getusername(uid_t user_id, PQExpBuffer errorMessage)
DWORD namesize = sizeof(username);
#else
struct passwd pwbuf;
- struct passwd *pw;
+ struct passwd *pw = NULL;
char buf[1024];
int rc;
#endif
@@ -1230,7 +1230,8 @@ pg_fe_getusername(uid_t user_id, PQExpBuffer errorMessage)
if (errorMessage)
libpq_append_error(errorMessage, "local user with ID %ld does not exist", (long) user_id);
}
- name = pw->pw_name;
+ else
+ name = pw->pw_name;
#endif
if (name)