Re: BUG #17995: Segmentation fault caused by UPDATE statement - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #17995: Segmentation fault caused by UPDATE statement
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Msg-id 636983.1687753628@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #17995: Segmentation fault caused by UPDATE statement  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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Re: BUG #17995: Segmentation fault caused by UPDATE statement
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Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 06:00:00AM +0300, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
>> BTW, there is a commitfest entry to eliminate a bunch of other stack
>> overflow hazards (may be the fuzzer can find some of them too):
>> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/43/4239/

> Thanks for the pointer, I'll double-check that.  Some of the locations
> of stack depth checks proposed involve performance-sensitive code
> paths, though, like mcxt.c :/

I hadn't looked at the patch yet, but ... mcxt.c?  How is that recursive?
Even if there is some path that recurses through that, wouldn't the
check be better placed in a less-hot part of the loop?

            regards, tom lane



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