Re: return correct error code from pgtls_init

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 6:14 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 10:32:59AM -0700, Zhihong Yu wrote:
> > It seems error code checking in pgtls_init() should follow the same
> > convention as PG codebase adopts - i.e. the non-zero error code should be
> > returned (instead of hard coded -1).
> >
> > Please see the attached patch.
>
> I don't see the point of changing this. First, other areas of
> fe-secure-openssl.c use a harcoded value of -1 as error codes, so the
> current style is more consistent. Second, if we were to change that,
> why are you not changing one call of pthread_mutex_lock()?
> --
> Michael
>

Hi,
Looking at the -1 return, e.g.

pq_lockarray = malloc(sizeof(pthread_mutex_t) *
CRYPTO_num_locks());

when pq_lockarray is NULL. We can return errno.

I didn't change call to pthread_mutex_lock() because PGTHREAD_ERROR() is
used which aborts.

Cheers