Re: Backup manifests accept out-of-range LSNs

From: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiwari(dot)slg01(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Yuefei Shi <shiyuefei1004(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Subject: Re: Backup manifests accept out-of-range LSNs
Date: 2026-08-12 09:27:33
Message-ID: CAJTYsWU-QKtvi8aNch9XwkUO+MaK8kBAG+B9Tk2TKYHATtzbuA@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 at 07:22, Yuefei Shi <shiyuefei1004(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Reviewed this patch.
>
> The issue seems valid. PostgreSQL-generated manifests should not normally
> contain such LSNs, but a malformed or modified manifest could make the
> parser operate on a different LSN than the one specified. The current
> sscanf() based parser allows this through truncation of oversized
> components and ignored trailing characters.
>
> The proposed fix looks good and the tests cover the regression cases.
>
Thanks for the review!

Attaching v2 which uses the new pg_parse_lsn funct.

Regards,
Ayush

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v2-0001-Reject-out-of-range-LSNs-in-backup-manifests.patch application/octet-stream 3.9 KB

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