On 2026-Apr-07, Tom Lane wrote:
> Maybe you saw this already, but BF member skink is failing on
> src/test/modules/injection_points/specs/repack.spec:
>
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=skink&dt=2026-04-06%2022%3A50%3A41
Thanks, I hadn't, and I cannot reproduce it locally. Anyway, the
valgrind report is
==1617044== VALGRINDERROR-BEGIN
==1617044== Syscall param pwrite64(buf) points to uninitialised byte(s)
==1617044== at 0x6704003: pwrite (pwrite64.c:25)
==1617044== by 0x44AAC72: pg_pwritev (pg_iovec.h:101)
==1617044== by 0x44AC6B5: FileWriteV (fd.c:2280)
==1617044== by 0x44A8EC4: FileWrite (fd.h:245)
==1617044== by 0x44A8EC4: BufFileDumpBuffer (buffile.c:538)
==1617044== by 0x44A9034: BufFileFlush (buffile.c:724)
==1617044== by 0x44A9661: BufFileClose (buffile.c:418)
==1617044== by 0x426C4DE: export_initial_snapshot (repack_worker.c:346)
==1617044== by 0x426CA17: RepackWorkerMain (repack_worker.c:145)
==1617044== by 0x441D3AD: BackgroundWorkerMain (bgworker.c:865)
==1617044== by 0x44219D9: postmaster_child_launch (launch_backend.c:265)
==1617044== Address 0x12d745e2 is 106 bytes inside a block of size 8,272 client-defined
==1617044== at 0x4661CFE: palloc (mcxt.c:1411)
==1617044== by 0x44A8C54: makeBufFileCommon (buffile.c:121)
==1617044== by 0x44A933F: BufFileCreateFileSet (buffile.c:272)
==1617044== by 0x426C4A5: export_initial_snapshot (repack_worker.c:341)
==1617044== by 0x426CA17: RepackWorkerMain (repack_worker.c:145)
==1617044== by 0x441D3AD: BackgroundWorkerMain (bgworker.c:865)
==1617044== by 0x44219D9: postmaster_child_launch (launch_backend.c:265)
==1617044== by 0x4423B6D: StartBackgroundWorker (postmaster.c:4197)
==1617044== by 0x4423DB8: maybe_start_bgworkers (postmaster.c:4362)
==1617044== by 0x4425119: LaunchMissingBackgroundProcesses (postmaster.c:3437)
==1617044== by 0x4426A75: ServerLoop (postmaster.c:1737)
==1617044== by 0x44280DC: PostmasterMain (postmaster.c:1412)
==1617044== Uninitialised value was created by a stack allocation
==1617044== at 0x4674D39: SerializeSnapshot (snapmgr.c:1737)
==1617044==
==1617044== VALGRINDERROR-END
and obviously BufFileCreateFileSet() is being called by existing code
already and it doesn't fail, so I *think* the problem might be that
SerializedSnapshotData has some padding bytes that are being written.
Maybe using palloc0() is enough? I'll try that.
If that doesn't silence skink, I guess my next step is to reproduce
skink's environment more precisely ...
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