Re: CVE-2017-7484-induced bugs, or, btree cmp functions are not leakproof?

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2017-7484-induced bugs, or, btree cmp functions are not leakproof?
Date: 2019-07-17 09:08:48
Message-ID: CA+HiwqHaqLDEF=X+b2zznSzkjBX4dsiER4QciEFjNh51Ls5irA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:43 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:15 AM Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Thanks for checking. There has been a lot of churn in the inheritance
> > planning code since my last email on this thread, so I'd like to
> > reconsider. I'm busy this week with some things, so I'll try posting
> > something on next Tuesday.
> >
> Sounds good.

I looked at this today and concluded that the problem and the patches
discussed here are fairly isolated from inheritance planning changes
committed to PG 12.

I've combined the two patches into one. I tried to think up test
cases to go with the code changes, but couldn't come up with one.

Thanks,
Amit

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