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Change subject: IMPALA-11365: Dereferencing null pointer in TopNNode ...................................................................... IMPALA-11365: Dereferencing null pointer in TopNNode In the constructor of TopNNode, if 'pnode.partition_comparator_config_' is NULL, we initialise 'partition_cmp_' with a NULL pointer. However, when initialising 'partition_heaps_', we dereference 'partition_cmp_' because 'ComparatorWrapper' expects a reference. This has so far not lead to a crash because in this case the comparator of 'partition_heaps_' is not used, but assigning a NULL pointer to a reference is undefined behaviour. After this change, instead of assigning a NULL pointer to 'partition_cmp_', we use a dummy comparator, and no undefined behaviour is invoked. Change-Id: I0b15b06f608b4d17fdf8a24e05967aaa16ebb79c Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/18629 Reviewed-by: Zoltan Borok-Nagy <borokna...@cloudera.com> Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenk...@cloudera.com> --- M be/src/exec/topn-node.cc M be/src/util/tuple-row-compare.h 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Approvals: Zoltan Borok-Nagy: Looks good to me, approved Impala Public Jenkins: Verified -- To view, visit http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/18629 To unsubscribe, visit http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/settings Gerrit-Project: Impala-ASF Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-MessageType: merged Gerrit-Change-Id: I0b15b06f608b4d17fdf8a24e05967aaa16ebb79c Gerrit-Change-Number: 18629 Gerrit-PatchSet: 6 Gerrit-Owner: Daniel Becker <daniel.bec...@cloudera.com> Gerrit-Reviewer: Csaba Ringhofer <csringho...@cloudera.com> Gerrit-Reviewer: Daniel Becker <daniel.bec...@cloudera.com> Gerrit-Reviewer: Impala Public Jenkins <impala-public-jenk...@cloudera.com> Gerrit-Reviewer: Zoltan Borok-Nagy <borokna...@cloudera.com>