Overlength socket paths (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Refactor flex and bison make rules)

Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 11/28/2012 11:03 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> [ digs around ... ] It looks like the failure is coming from here:
>>
>> if (strlen(path) >= sizeof(unp->sun_path))
>> return EAI_FAIL;

> Looks like it was. Good catch. What's the best way to fix?

So far as I can see, none of the spec-defined EAI_XXX codes map very
nicely to "path name too long". Possibly we could return EAI_SYSTEM
and set errno to ENAMETOOLONG, but I'm not sure the latter is very
portable either.

Another line of attack is to just teach getnameinfo_unix() to malloc its
result struct big enough to hold whatever the supplied path is. The
portability risk here is if sun_path is not the last field in struct
sockaddr_un on some platform --- but that seems a bit unlikely, and even
if it isn't I doubt we access any other members besides sun_family and
sun_path. I kind of like this approach, since it gets rid of the
length limitation rather than just reporting it more clearly.

regards, tom lane