Re: Fix overflow of nbatch

> On Sep 22, 2025, at 21:20, Vaibhav Jain <jainva(at)google(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> With a1b4f28, to compute current_space, nbatch is being multiplied
> by BLCKSZ. nbatch is int and when multiplied with BLCKSZ, it can
> easily overflow the int limit.To keep the calculation safe for
> current_space, convert nbatch to size_t.
>
> Please find a patch for the same.
>
> Thanks,
> Vaibhav
> <0001-Fix-overflow-of-nbatch.patch>

I guess that because earlier in the function, nbatch is always clamped with:

nbatch = pg_nextpower2_32(Max(2, minbatch));
So, in practice, nbatch won’t grow to very big. But yes, if nbatch reaches to, say 1 million, it will overflow.

A simple program proves that changing nbatch to size_t will prevent from overflowing:

```
#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
size_t nbatch = 1000000; // 1 million
int BLCKSZ = 8192;
size_t result = 2 * nbatch * BLCKSZ;
printf("%zu\n", result); // will output 16384000000
return 0;
}
```

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