pgsql: Add Asserts to validate prevbit values in bms_prev_member - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From David Rowley
Subject pgsql: Add Asserts to validate prevbit values in bms_prev_member
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Msg-id E1umm8G-000cy8-13@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Add Asserts to validate prevbit values in bms_prev_member

bms_prev_member() could attempt to access memory outside of the words[]
array in cases where the prevbit was a number < -1 or > a->nwords *
BITS_PER_BITMAPWORD + 1.

Here we add the Asserts to help draw attention to bogus callers so we're
more likely to catch them during development.

In passing, fix wording of bms_prev_member's header comment which talks
about how we expect the callers to ensure only valid prevbit values are
used.

Author: Greg Burd <greg@burd.me>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2000A717-1FFE-4031-827B-9330FB2E9065%40getmailspring.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b4632883d44eae892e28dafbf674e6ac3dfd824d

Modified Files
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src/backend/nodes/bitmapset.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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