Re: [PATCH v20] GSSAPI encryption support

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> I'm not very sure why the integer/pointer confusion in pgstat_bestart
>> doesn't cause hard crashes when using gss auth --- or does
>> this suite not actually test that?

> Isn't it just saying that because of the implicit declaration..?
> Once that's fixed, the integer/pointer warning will go away, but
> it's actually a pointer in either case, hence why it isn't crashing.

Well, if the caller thinks what is being passed back is an int,
it will do a 32-to-64-bit widening, which is almost certainly
going to result in a corrupted pointer.

> The test suite does test GSS authentication and GSS encryption.

Hm.  I'll poke at this more closely.

            regards, tom lane