Re: [HACKERS] logical decoding of two-phase transactions

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:43 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 1:55 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> writes:
> > > Pushed.
> >
> > I think you'd be way better off making the gid fields be "char *"
> > and pstrdup'ing the result of pq_getmsgstring.  Another possibility
> > perhaps is to use strlcpy, but I'd only go that way if it's important
> > to constrain the received strings to 200 bytes.
> >
>
> I think it is important to constrain length to 200 bytes for this case
> as here we receive a prepared transaction identifier which according
> to docs [1] has a max length of 200 bytes. Also, in
> ParseCommitRecord() and ParseAbortRecord(), we are using strlcpy with
> 200 as max length to copy prepare transaction identifier. So, I think
> it is better to use strlcpy here unless you or Peter feels otherwise.
>

OK. I have implemented this reported [1] potential buffer overrun
using the constraining strlcpy, because the GID limitation of 200
bytes is already mentioned in the documentation [2].

PSA.

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[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/161029.1626639923%40sss.pgh.pa.us
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-prepare-transaction.html

Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia