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Commit c6e0fe1f2 was a shade too trusting that any pointer passed to pfree, repalloc, etc will point at a valid chunk. Notably, passing a pointer that was actually obtained from malloc tended to result in obscure assertion failures, if not worse. (On FreeBSD I've seen such mistakes take down the entire cluster, seemingly as a result of clobbering shared memory.) To improve matters, extend the mcxt_methods[] array so that it has entries for every possible MemoryContextMethodID bit-pattern, with the currently unassigned ID codes pointing to error-reporting functions. Then, fiddle with the ID assignments so that patterns likely to be associated with bad pointers aren't valid ID codes. In particular, we should avoid assigning bit patterns 000 (zeroed memory) and 111 (wipe_mem'd memory). It turns out that on glibc (Linux), malloc uses chunk headers that have flag bits in the same place we keep MemoryContextMethodID, and that the bit patterns 000, 001, 010 are the only ones we'll see as long as the backend isn't threaded. So we can have very robust detection of pfree'ing a malloc-assigned block on that platform, at least so long as we can refrain from using up those ID codes. On other platforms, we don't have such a good guarantee, but keeping 000 reserved will be enough to catch many such cases. While here, make GetMemoryChunkMethodID() local to mcxt.c, as there seems no need for it to be exposed even in memutils_internal.h. Patch by me, with suggestions from Andres Freund and David Rowley. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2910981.1665080361@sss.pgh.pa.us
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