Hello I just came across a crash while debugging some corrupted system catalogs; pg_identify_object_as_address fails to cope with some NULL input, causing a crash. Attached patch fixes it. Naturally, the output array will contain NULL members in the output, but that's better than crashing ...
(The first hunk is purely speculative; I haven't seen anything that requires that. The actual fix is in the other hunks. But seems better to be defensive.) The crash can be reproduced thusly create function f() returns int language plpgsql as $$ begin return 1; end; $$; update pg_proc set pronamespace = 9999 where proname = 'f' returning oid \gset select * from pg_identify_object_as_address('pg_proc'::regclass, :oid, 0); After the patch, the last line returns: type | object_names | object_args ----------+--------------+------------- function | {NULL,f} | {} where the NULL obviously corresponds to the bogus pg_namespace OID being referenced. The patch is on 9.6. I checked 10 and it applies fine there. My intention is to apply to all branches since 9.5. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Expert, https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/objectaddress.c b/src/backend/catalog/objectaddress.c index bd55dfd08e3..479087592da 100644 --- a/src/backend/catalog/objectaddress.c +++ b/src/backend/catalog/objectaddress.c @@ -3576,7 +3576,10 @@ pg_identify_object_as_address(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) pfree(identity); /* object_names */ - values[1] = PointerGetDatum(strlist_to_textarray(names)); + if (names != NIL) + values[1] = PointerGetDatum(strlist_to_textarray(names)); + else + values[1] = PointerGetDatum(construct_empty_array(TEXTOID)); nulls[1] = false; /* object_args */ @@ -4803,10 +4806,12 @@ strlist_to_textarray(List *list) { ArrayType *arr; Datum *datums; + bool *nulls; int j = 0; ListCell *cell; MemoryContext memcxt; MemoryContext oldcxt; + int one = 1; memcxt = AllocSetContextCreate(CurrentMemoryContext, "strlist to array", @@ -4814,17 +4819,24 @@ strlist_to_textarray(List *list) oldcxt = MemoryContextSwitchTo(memcxt); datums = palloc(sizeof(text *) * list_length(list)); + nulls = palloc(sizeof(bool) * list_length(list)); foreach(cell, list) { char *name = lfirst(cell); - datums[j++] = CStringGetTextDatum(name); + if (name) + { + nulls[j] = false; + datums[j++] = CStringGetTextDatum(name); + } + else + nulls[j++] = true; } MemoryContextSwitchTo(oldcxt); - arr = construct_array(datums, list_length(list), - TEXTOID, -1, false, 'i'); + arr = construct_md_array(datums, nulls, 1, &j, + &one, TEXTOID, -1, false, 'i'); MemoryContextDelete(memcxt); return arr;