Henry Robinson has posted comments on this change.

Change subject: IMPALA-5132: Fix ASAN use after free in timezone_db
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http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/6503/1/be/src/exprs/timezone_db.cc
File be/src/exprs/timezone_db.cc:

PS1, Line 676: char *filestr = strdup(path.string().c_str());
> Oh ya, const_cast too :)
No, that's precisely the point: const_cast'ing away a const is undefined in 
C++. Here, we copy into a representation that has a non-const pointer to the 
underlying array, so that mkstemp() can mutate it in place.


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