Fwd: Bug#396218: bind.c: bad handling of SQL_LEN_DATA_AT_EXEC breaks passing char buffer length at SQLExec time

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Subject: Bug#396218: bind.c: bad handling of SQL_LEN_DATA_AT_EXEC breaks
passing char buffer length at SQLExec time
Date: Monday 30 October 2006 17:00
From: Enrico Zini <enrico(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit(at)bugs(dot)debian(dot)org>

Package: odbc-postgresql
Version: 1:08.01.0200-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hello,

thanks for maintaining odbc-postgresql.

In my package dballe (apt-get source dballe) I optimize some frequent
query by preparing the ODBC statement for them and binding the input
parameters, so that when I need the results I can just set some of the
bound variables and call SQLExecute.

This is an example of such variable bind code:

SQLBindParameter(res->istm, 3, SQL_PARAM_INPUT, SQL_C_CHAR,
SQL_CHAR, 0, 0, &(res->value), 0, &(res->value_ind));

Note that I'm passing a pointer to the variable that will hold the
string length as the last parameter, instead of using SQL_NTS.

Now, this call eventually ends up in this code, found at bind.c:118:

/* Data at exec macro only valid for C char/binary data */
if (pcbValue && (*pcbValue == SQL_DATA_AT_EXEC ||
*pcbValue <=
SQL_LEN_DATA_AT_EXEC_OFFSET)) apdopts->parameters[ipar].data_at_exec =
TRUE;
else
apdopts->parameters[ipar].data_at_exec = FALSE;

This code tries to dereferenciate the (still uninitialised) pointer I
pass it ( that &(res->value_ind) ) and fails. The test should be like
this instead:

/* Data at exec macro only valid for C char/binary data */
if (pcbValue && (pcbValue == SQL_DATA_AT_EXEC ||
pcbValue <=
SQL_LEN_DATA_AT_EXEC_OFFSET)) apdopts->parameters[ipar].data_at_exec =
TRUE;
else
apdopts->parameters[ipar].data_at_exec = FALSE;

ODBC has this dirty habit of passing negative integers as special
values for pointers, and SQL_DATA_AT_EXEC is one of those:

from /usr/include/sql.h:29:

#define SQL_NULL_DATA (-1)
#define SQL_DATA_AT_EXEC (-2)

same goes for the handling of SQL_LEN_DATA_AT_EXEC_OFFSET.

I regret I can't test the patch with code that uses SQL_DATA_AT_EXEC,
because that is an ODBC feature that I do not use. However, with the
patch my SQLBindParameter above works fine.

Ciao,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
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Versions of packages odbc-postgresql depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries ii libpq4 8.1.5-1 PostgreSQL C
client library ii odbcinst1debian1 2.2.11-13 Support
library and helper program

odbc-postgresql recommends no packages.

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