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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [PATCH] avoid buffer underflow in errfinish()
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Msg-id CA+TgmobT2q-wG+nzEqwBp+=3zpqrPia9pwi+e50xJBU6=LCdxg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] avoid buffer underflow in errfinish()  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 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?

No, it fell through the cracks.  I have just committed it.

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Robert Haas
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