Re: [PATCH] avoid buffer underflow in errfinish() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCH] avoid buffer underflow in errfinish()
Date
Msg-id 20131130190046.GB11181@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [PATCH] avoid buffer underflow in errfinish()  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] avoid buffer underflow in errfinish()  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 08:45:51AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > CHECK_STACK_DEPTH checks if errordata_stack_depth is negative.
> > Move the dereference of &errordata[errordata_stack_depth] after
> > the check to avoid out-of-bounds read.
> 
> This seems sensible and I'm inclined to commit it.  It's unlikely to
> matter very much in practice, since the only point of checking the
> stack depth in the first place is to catch a seemingly-unlikely coding
> error; and it's unlikely that referencing beyond the stack bounds
> would do anything too horrible, either.  But we may as well do it
> right.

Was this ever dealt with?

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