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

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: 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: 2016-08-18 19:35:17
Message-ID: b127ee5a-301c-40bd-6aba-10f507e4cf6f@2ndquadrant.com
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On 3/22/16 9:27 AM, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
> diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/hba.c b/src/backend/libpq/hba.c
> index 28f9fb5..45aa802 100644
> --- a/src/backend/libpq/hba.c
> +++ b/src/backend/libpq/hba.c
> @@ -1008,14 +1008,9 @@ parse_hba_line(List *line, int line_num, char *raw_line)
> *cidr_slash = '\0';
>
> /* Get the IP address either way */
> + memset(&hints, 0, sizeof(hints));
> hints.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICHOST;
> hints.ai_family = AF_UNSPEC;
> - hints.ai_socktype = 0;
> - hints.ai_protocol = 0;
> - hints.ai_addrlen = 0;
> - hints.ai_canonname = NULL;
> - hints.ai_addr = NULL;
> - hints.ai_next = NULL;
>
> ret = pg_getaddrinfo_all(str, NULL, &hints, &gai_result);
> if (ret == 0 && gai_result)

In addition to what Heikki wrote, I think the above is not necessary.

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