Re: strange valgrind reports about wrapper_handler on 64-bit arm - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Bossart
Subject Re: strange valgrind reports about wrapper_handler on 64-bit arm
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Msg-id Z8skOiYFFNzbPVED@nathan
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In response to Re: strange valgrind reports about wrapper_handler on 64-bit arm  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: strange valgrind reports about wrapper_handler on 64-bit arm
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:41:38AM -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2025-03-07 10:36:35 -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:32:28AM -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
>> > Is it possible that the signal number we're getting called for is above
>> > PG_NSIG? That'd explain why the source value is something fairly random?
>> > 
>> > ISTM that we should add an Assert() to wrapper_handler() that ensures that the
>> > signal arg is below PG_NSIG.
>> 
>> We have such an assertion in pqsignal() before we install wrapper_handler
>> for anything.  Is there another way it could be getting called with a
>> different signo?
> 
> Who the hell knows :).
> 
> One potential way would be that we got SIGNAL_ARGS wrong for the platform and
> are interpreting some random thing as the signal number.  Or something went
> wrong in the windows signal emulation code.  Or ...
> 
> It seems cheap insurance to add it both places.

Good enough for me.  I'll commit/back-patch to v17 the attached soon.

-- 
nathan

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