pgsql: Fix off-by-one loop count in MapArrayTypeName, and get rid of st

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix off-by-one loop count in MapArrayTypeName, and get rid of st
Date: 2014-12-16 20:36:14
Message-ID: E1Y0yqs-0008VO-GI@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Fix off-by-one loop count in MapArrayTypeName, and get rid of static array.

MapArrayTypeName would copy up to NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes of the base type
name, which of course is wrong: after prepending '_' there is only room for
NAMEDATALEN-2 bytes. Aside from being the wrong result, this case would
lead to overrunning the statically allocated work buffer. This would be a
security bug if the function were ever used outside bootstrap mode, but it
isn't, at least not in any currently supported branches.

Aside from fixing the off-by-one loop logic, this patch gets rid of the
static work buffer by having MapArrayTypeName pstrdup its result; the sole
caller was already doing that, so this just requires moving the pstrdup
call. This saves a few bytes but mainly it makes the API a lot cleaner.

Back-patch on the off chance that there is some third-party code using
MapArrayTypeName with less-secure input. Pushing pstrdup into the function
should not cause any serious problems for such hypothetical code; at worst
there might be a short term memory leak.

Per Coverity scanning.

Branch
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REL9_1_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5c784d96ae445f0d46bd3abde10bb02b186f42e9

Modified Files
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src/backend/bootstrap/bootscanner.l | 2 +-
src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------
src/include/bootstrap/bootstrap.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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