pgsql: Don't call palloc() while holding a spinlock, either.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Don't call palloc() while holding a spinlock, either.
Date: 2020-06-03 16:36:56
Message-ID: E1jgWNs-0000JO-R7@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Don't call palloc() while holding a spinlock, either.

Fix some more violations of the "only straight-line code inside a
spinlock" rule. These are hazardous not only because they risk
holding the lock for an excessively long time, but because it's
possible for palloc to throw elog(ERROR), leaving a stuck spinlock
behind.

copy_replication_slot() had two separate places that did pallocs
while holding a spinlock. We can make the code simpler and safer
by copying the whole ReplicationSlot struct into a local variable
while holding the spinlock, and then referencing that copy.
(While that's arguably more cycles than we really need to spend
holding the lock, the struct isn't all that big, and this way seems
far more maintainable than copying fields piecemeal. Anyway this
is surely much cheaper than a palloc.) That bug goes back to v12.

InvalidateObsoleteReplicationSlots() not only did a palloc while
holding a spinlock, but for extra sloppiness then leaked the memory
--- probably for the lifetime of the checkpointer process, though
I didn't try to verify that. Fortunately that silliness is new
in HEAD.

pg_get_replication_slots() had a cosmetic violation of the rule,
in that it only assumed it's safe to call namecpy() while holding
a spinlock. Still, that's a hazard waiting to bite somebody, and
there were some other cosmetic coding-rule violations in the same
function, so clean it up. I back-patched this as far as v10; the
code exists before that but it looks different, and this didn't
seem important enough to adapt the patch further back.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200602.161518.1399689010416646074.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com

Branch
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REL_10_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0c735c686a9078c59d3b43bfb9e0c3f5235f5c4e

Modified Files
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src/backend/replication/slotfuncs.c | 64 +++++++++++++++----------------------
src/include/replication/slot.h | 4 +--
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

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