On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 at 20:51 Ranier Vilela <ranier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > In src/include/access/xlogbackup.h, the field *name* > has one byte extra to store null-termination. > > But, in the function *do_pg_backup_start*, > I think that is a mistake in the line (8736): > > memcpy(state->name, backupidstr, strlen(backupidstr)); > > memcpy with strlen does not copy the whole string. > strlen returns the exact length of the string, without > the null-termination. > > So, I think this can result in errors, > like in the function *build_backup_content* > (src/backend/access/transam/xlogbackup.c) > Where *appendStringInfo* expects a string with null-termination. > > appendStringInfo(result, "LABEL: %s\n", state->name); > > To fix, copy strlen size plus one byte, to include the null-termination. > > Doesn’t “sizeof” solve the problem? It take in account the null-termination character. Fabrízio de Royes Mello