Fix off-by-one loop count in MapArrayTypeName, and get rid of static array.

MapArrayTypeName would copy up to NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes of the base type
name, which of course is wrong: after prepending '_' there is only room for
NAMEDATALEN-2 bytes.  Aside from being the wrong result, this case would
lead to overrunning the statically allocated work buffer.  This would be a
security bug if the function were ever used outside bootstrap mode, but it
isn't, at least not in any currently supported branches.

Aside from fixing the off-by-one loop logic, this patch gets rid of the
static work buffer by having MapArrayTypeName pstrdup its result; the sole
caller was already doing that, so this just requires moving the pstrdup
call.  This saves a few bytes but mainly it makes the API a lot cleaner.

Back-patch on the off chance that there is some third-party code using
MapArrayTypeName with less-secure input.  Pushing pstrdup into the function
should not cause any serious problems for such hypothetical code; at worst
there might be a short term memory leak.

Per Coverity scanning.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c b/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
index e954762e549..fc1b3c8b4c7 100644
--- a/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
+++ b/src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
@@ -1037,38 +1037,33 @@ AllocateAttribute(void)
 	return attribute;
 }
 
-/* ----------------
+/*
  *		MapArrayTypeName
- * XXX arrays of "basetype" are always "_basetype".
- *	   this is an evil hack inherited from rel. 3.1.
- * XXX array dimension is thrown away because we
- *	   don't support fixed-dimension arrays.  again,
- *	   sickness from 3.1.
  *
- * the string passed in must have a '[' character in it
+ * Given a type name, produce the corresponding array type name by prepending
+ * '_' and truncating as needed to fit in NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes.  This is only
+ * used in bootstrap mode, so we can get away with assuming that the input is
+ * ASCII and we don't need multibyte-aware truncation.
  *
- * the string returned is a pointer to static storage and should NOT
- * be freed by the CALLER.
- * ----------------
+ * The given string normally ends with '[]' or '[digits]'; we discard that.
+ *
+ * The result is a palloc'd string.
  */
 char *
-MapArrayTypeName(char *s)
+MapArrayTypeName(const char *s)
 {
 	int			i,
 				j;
-	static char newStr[NAMEDATALEN];	/* array type names < NAMEDATALEN long */
+	char		newStr[NAMEDATALEN];
 
-	if (s == NULL || s[0] == '\0')
-		return s;
-
-	j = 1;
 	newStr[0] = '_';
-	for (i = 0; i < NAMEDATALEN - 1 && s[i] != '['; i++, j++)
+	j = 1;
+	for (i = 0; i < NAMEDATALEN - 2 && s[i] != '['; i++, j++)
 		newStr[j] = s[i];
 
 	newStr[j] = '\0';
 
-	return newStr;
+	return pstrdup(newStr);
 }