Re: Fix uninitialized variable access (src/backend/utils/mmgr/freepage.c)

At Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:04:44 +0900, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote in
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 06:22:56PM -0300, Ranier Vilela wrote:
> > Em qui., 1 de jul. de 2021 às 17:20, Mahendra Singh Thalor <
> > mahi6run(at)gmail(dot)com> escreveu:
> >> Please can we try to hit this rare condition by any test case. If you have
> >> any test cases, please share.
>
> Yeah, this needs to be proved. Are you sure that this change is
> actually right? The bottom of FreePageManagerPutInternal() has
> assumptions that a page may not be found during a btree search, with
> an index value used.

By a quick look, FreePageBtreeSearch is called only from
FreePageManagerPutInternal at three points. The first one assumes that
result.found == true, at the rest points are passed only when
fpm->btree_depth > 0, i.e, fpm->btree_root is non-NULL.

In short FreePageBtreeSeach is never called when fpm->btree_root is
NULL. I don't think we need to fill-in other members since the
contract of the function looks fine.

It might be simpler to turn 'if (btp == NULL)' to an assertion.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center