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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2012-12-11 22:09:39 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2012-12-11 22:09:39 -0500
commitb7ef58ae3322db88ceaaa97894054a5afe6a9aaf (patch)
treec271f628cf96fe541b5b4cef6b5b538e21143d15 /configure
parent175f7a3885666416aa82e755485a0dbda48a39ee (diff)
downloadpostgresql-b7ef58ae3322db88ceaaa97894054a5afe6a9aaf.tar.gz
Add defenses against integer overflow in dynahash numbuckets calculations.
The dynahash code requires the number of buckets in a hash table to fit in an int; but since we calculate the desired hash table size dynamically, there are various scenarios where we might calculate too large a value. The resulting overflow can lead to infinite loops, division-by-zero crashes, etc. I (tgl) had previously installed some defenses against that in commit 299d1716525c659f0e02840e31fbe4dea3, but that covered only one call path. Moreover it worked by limiting the request size to work_mem, but in a 64-bit machine it's possible to set work_mem high enough that the problem appears anyway. So let's fix the problem at the root by installing limits in the dynahash.c functions themselves. Trouble report and patch by Jeff Davis.
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