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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2016-01-09 13:44:27 -0500 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2016-01-09 13:44:27 -0500 |
commit | fe2578568e769d322036953cb77acea677aaac6a (patch) | |
tree | ddac6a7d41ed073a8687d8ecb3aed340047acc8a /src/tutorial/advanced.source | |
parent | e8808f3d72355e701a7abf4150b5b63e1df37d55 (diff) |
Clean up code for widget_in() and widget_out().
Given syntactically wrong input, widget_in() could call atof() with an
indeterminate pointer argument, typically leading to a crash; or if it
didn't do that, it might return a NULL pointer, which again would lead
to a crash since old-style C functions aren't supposed to do things
that way. Fix that by correcting the off-by-one syntax test and
throwing a proper error rather than just returning NULL.
Also, since widget_in and widget_out have been marked STRICT for a
long time, their tests for null inputs are just dead code; remove 'em.
In the oldest branches, also improve widget_out to use snprintf not
sprintf, just to be sure.
In passing, get rid of a long-since-useless sprintf into a local buffer
that nothing further is done with, and make some other minor coding
style cleanups.
In the intended regression-testing usage of these functions, none of
this is very significant; but if the regression test database were
left around in a production installation, these bugs could amount
to a minor security hazard.
Piotr Stefaniak, Michael Paquier, and Tom Lane
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