Re: Re: PROPOSAL: make PostgreSQL sanitizers-friendly (and prevent information disclosure)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Piotr Stefaniak <postgres(at)piotr-stefaniak(dot)me>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: PROPOSAL: make PostgreSQL sanitizers-friendly (and prevent information disclosure)
Date: 2016-08-19 23:22:02
Message-ID: 21173.1471648922@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2016-08-19 17:55:25 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It'd be useful also to figure out why our existing valgrind testing has
>> not caught this already. The example you give looks like it surely
>> ought to be replicated well enough in the standard regression tests.

> The valgrind suppression file explicitly hides a bunch of padding
> issues.

So maybe we ought to work towards taking those out?

regards, tom lane

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