Re: Possible dereference after null check (src/backend/executor/ExecUtils.c)

At Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:54:46 -0300, Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com> wrote in
> Hi,
>
> Per Coverity.
>
> The functions ExecGetInsertedCols and ExecGetUpdatedCols at ExecUtils.c
> only are safe to call if the variable "ri_RangeTableIndex" is  != 0.
>
> Otherwise a possible Dereference after null check (FORWARD_NULL) can be
> raised.

As it turns out, it's a false positive. And perhaps we don't want to
take action just to satisfy the static code analyzer.


The coment in ExecGetInsertedCols says:

> /*
>  * The columns are stored in the range table entry. If this ResultRelInfo
>  * doesn't have an entry in the range table (i.e. if it represents a
>  * partition routing target), fetch the parent's RTE and map the columns
>  * to the order they are in the partition.
>  */
> if (relinfo->ri_RangeTableIndex != 0)
> {

This means that any one of the two is always usable here.  AFAICS,
actually, ri_RangeTableIndex is non-zero for partitioned (=leaf) and
non-partitoned relations and ri_RootResultRelInfo is non-null for
partitioned (parent or intermediate) relations (since they don't have
a coressponding range table entry).

The only cases where both are 0 and NULL are trigger-use, which is
unrelated to the code path.