| From: | Dmitry Ivanov <d(dot)ivanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Bug in WaitForBackgroundWorkerShutdown() [REL9_5_STABLE] |
| Date: | 2016-08-04 11:44:08 |
| Message-ID: | 1637882.WfYN5gPf1A@abook |
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Recently I've encountered a strange crash while calling elog(ERROR, "...")
after the WaitForBackgroundWorkerShutdown() function. It turns out that
_returns_ inside the PG_TRY()..PG_CATCH() block are *highly* undesirable,
since they leave PG_exception_stack pointing to a local struct in a dead
frame, which is an obvious UB. I've attached a patch which fixes this behavior
in the aforementioned function, but there might be more errors like that
elsewhere.
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Dmitry Ivanov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
Russian Postgres Company
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| fix_WaitForBackgroundWorkerShutdown_v1.patch | text/x-patch | 650 bytes |
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