Re: CID 1428952 (#1 of 1): Out-of-bounds access (OVERRUN) (src/backend/commands/async.c)

From: Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CID 1428952 (#1 of 1): Out-of-bounds access (OVERRUN) (src/backend/commands/async.c)
Date: 2020-07-18 19:27:36
Message-ID: CAEudQApF8g6ELjyMiMXD_OS6ey4P-QX8VQcmE11ypWOgboE82A@mail.gmail.com
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Em sáb., 18 de jul. de 2020 às 15:19, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> escreveu:

> Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Em sáb., 18 de jul. de 2020 às 14:21, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> escreveu:
> >> No, there's just something wrong with Coverity's analysis.
> >> I've grown a bit disillusioned with that tool; of late it's
> >> been giving many more false positives than useful reports.
>
> > It could be, differences in the sizes of the types. Since on Linux, there
> > may be no alerts.
>
> No, all the types involved here should be pretty platform-independent.
> IIRC, the PG security team already saw this same warning from Coverity,
> and we dismissed it as a false positive.
>
Understood, again, thanks for your time.

regards,
Ranier Vilela

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