Fix List memory issue in transformColumnDefinition
authorDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:13:34 +0000 (12:13 +1300)
committerDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:13:34 +0000 (12:13 +1300)
commitdf567fbf6e41aa6b574ead3803c304af55645501
tree1424584bdafe9a8b1020dea6d3aae16c4f572507
parent2dc77adc768e7b5732b58c7ce1d0c0beb09cc79c
Fix List memory issue in transformColumnDefinition

When calling generateSerialExtraStmts(), we would pass in the
constraint->options.  In some cases, generateSerialExtraStmts() would
modify the referenced List to remove elements from it, but doing so is
invalid without assigning the list back to all variables that point to it.
In the particular reported problem case, the List became empty, in which
cases it became NIL, but the passed in constraint->options didn't get to
find out about that and was left pointing to free'd memory.

To fix this, just perform a list_copy() inside generateSerialExtraStmts().
We could just do a list_copy() just before we perform the delete from the
list, however, that seems less robust.  Let's make sure the generated
CreateSeqStmt gets a completely different copy of the list to be safe.

Bug: #17879
Reported-by: Fei Changhong
Diagnosed-by: Fei Changhong
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17879-b7dfb5debee58ff5@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 11, all supported versions
src/backend/parser/parse_utilcmd.c