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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2020-12-18 15:46:44 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2020-12-18 15:46:44 -0500
commit94aaa79afe656e6845d3c8af0befa8922edae0e8 (patch)
tree0e11419a1e5e312d950c39276bce1d8036573412 /src
parentda7edca4630c5bcf7c0f0f5819ab6fb020d3c845 (diff)
Avoid memcpy() with same source and destination during relmapper init.
A narrow reading of the C standard says that memcpy(x,x,n) is undefined, although it's hard to envision an implementation that would really misbehave. However, analysis tools such as valgrind might whine about this; accordingly, let's band-aid relmapper.c to not do it. See also 5b630501e, d3f4e8a8a, ad7b48ea0, and other similar fixes. Apparently, none of those folk tried valgrinding initdb? This has been like this for long enough that I'm surprised it hasn't been reported before. Back-patch, just in case anybody wants to use a back branch on a platform that complains about this; we back-patched those earlier fixes too. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161790.1608310142@sss.pgh.pa.us
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/cache/relmapper.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/cache/relmapper.c b/src/backend/utils/cache/relmapper.c
index 6d4e179377d..b761a977008 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/cache/relmapper.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/cache/relmapper.c
@@ -839,8 +839,15 @@ write_relmap_file(bool shared, RelMapFile *newmap,
}
}
- /* Success, update permanent copy */
- memcpy(realmap, newmap, sizeof(RelMapFile));
+ /*
+ * Success, update permanent copy. During bootstrap, we might be working
+ * on the permanent copy itself, in which case skip the memcpy() to avoid
+ * invoking nominally-undefined behavior.
+ */
+ if (realmap != newmap)
+ memcpy(realmap, newmap, sizeof(RelMapFile));
+ else
+ Assert(!send_sinval); /* must be bootstrapping */
/* Critical section done */
if (write_wal)