Bug#13105873 :Valgrind Warning: CRASH IN FOREIGN
KEY HANDLING ON SUBSEQUENT CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS PROBLEM: -------- Consider a SP routine which does CREATE TABLE with REFERENCES clause. The first call to this routine invokes parser and the parsed items are cached, so as to avoid parsing for the second execution of the routine. It is obsevered that valgrind reports a warning upon read of thd->lex->alter_info->key_list->Foreign_key object, which seem to be pointing to a invalid memory address during second time execution of the routine. Accessing this object theoretically could cause a crash. ANALYSIS: --------- The problem stems from the fact that for some reason elements of ref_columns list in thd->lex->alter_info-> key_list->Foreign_key object are changed to point to objects allocated on runtime memory root. During the first execution of routine we create a copy of thd->lex->alter_info object. As part of this process we create a clones of objects in Alter_info::key_list and of Foreign_key object in particular. Then Foreign_key object is cloned for some reason we perform shallow copies of both Foreign_key::ref_columns and Foreign_key::columns list. So new instance of Foreign_key object starts to SHARE contents of ref_columns and columns list with the original instance. After that as part of cloning process we call list_copy_and_replace_each_value() for elements of ref_columns list. As result ref_columns lists in both original and cloned Foreign_key object start to contain pointers to Key_part_spec objects allocated on runtime memory root because of shallow copy. So when we start copying of thd->lex->alter_info object during the second execution of stored routine we indeed encounter pointer to the Key_part_spec object allocated on runtime mem-root which was cleared during at the end of previous execution. This is done in sp_head::execute(), by a call to free_root(&execute_mem_root,MYF(0)); As result we get valgrind warnings about accessing unreferenced memory. FIX: ---- The safest solution to this problem is to fix Foreign_key(Foreign_key, MEM_ROOT) constructor to do a deep copy of columns lists, similar to Key(Key, MEM_ROOT) constructor.
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