It is a fix for memory leak in the function 'newlocale' (the real name is __newlocale).
There is not released a memory for the local buffer 'locale_path'.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25770
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Patch was tested on Ubuntu 24.04.
My 'LOCPATH' environment variable is "/snap/code/193/usr/lib/locale".
With an original (system) libc I have the following problem:
#0 0x7d5c3aafc778 in realloc ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:85
#1 0x7d5c394b05f2 in __argz_add_sep string/argz-addsep.c:34
#2 0x7d5c39439bdb in __newlocale locale/newlocale.c:111
#3 0x7d5c370e58fc (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libp11-kit.so.0+0x1098fc) (BuildId: 1cbcd6ac7e0ff0259eb3acc14d556d2c1ec00cdc)
#4 0x7d5c3b14571e in call_init elf/dl-init.c:74
#5 0x7d5c3b145823 in call_init elf/dl-init.c:120
#6 0x7d5c3b145823 in _dl_init elf/dl-init.c:121
#7 0x7d5c3b15f59f (/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2+0x1f59f) (BuildId: 1c8db5f83bba514f8fd5f1fb6d7be975be1bb855)
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 46 byte(s) leaked in 1 allocation(s).
When I run with my corrected libc, through runtest.sh <my-application>, all is OK.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kovalenko <d.kovalenko@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Dmitry KovalenkoandFlorian Weimer
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