Re: BUG #17280: global-buffer-overflow on select from pg_stat_slru

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: a(dot)kozhemyakin(at)postgrespro(dot)ru, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #17280: global-buffer-overflow on select from pg_stat_slru
Date: 2021-11-11 02:52:27
Message-ID: YYyFawH87Sv3VZGi@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:39:23AM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> The loop is designed not to directly rely on SRLU_NUM_ELEMENTS so if
> we honor that design, we would take the first or the third way. The
> first way is smallest but I prefer the third way as it is
> straightforward as such kind of loops. The attached is that for the
> master.
>
> The code was introduced at 13 and the attached applies to the versions
> back to 13.

Or it would be easier for the reader to assign stat after checking for
the result of pgstat_slru_name(), no? I am not much a fan of this
code style that uses a counter, FWIW, but at the same time
SLRU_NUM_ELEMENTS is local to pgstat.c, so..
--
Michael

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