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    BUG#57108: mysqld crashes when I attempt to install plugin · f8d2154c
    Mats Kindahl authored
    If a relative path is supplied to option --defaults-file or
    --defaults-extra-file, the server will crash when executing
    an INSTALL PLUGIN command. The reason is that the defaults
    file is initially read relative the current working directory
    when the server is started, but when INSTALL PLUGIN is executed,
    the server has changed working directory to the data directory.
    Since there is no check that the call to my_load_defaults()
    inside mysql_install_plugin(), the subsequence call to
    free_defaults() will crash the server.
    
    This patch fixes the problem by:
    
    - Prepending the current working directory to the file name when
      a relative path is given to the --defaults-file or --defaults-
      extra-file option the first time my_load_defaults() is called,
      which is just after the server has started in main().
    
    - Adding a check of the return value of my_load_defaults() inside
      mysql_install_plugin() and aborting command (with an error) if
      an error is returned.
    
    - It also adds a check of the return value for load_defaults in
      lib_sql.cc for the embedded server since that was missing.
    
    To test that the relative files for the options --defaults-file and
    --defaults-extra-file is handled properly, mysql-test-run.pl is also
    changed to not add a --defaults-file option if one is provided in the
    tests *.opt file.
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