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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/src/common/psprintf.c b/src/common/psprintf.c
index 788c8f0d69..41c39c4c32 100644
--- a/src/common/psprintf.c
+++ b/src/common/psprintf.c
@@ -23,10 +23,6 @@
#include "utils/memutils.h"
-static size_t pvsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *fmt, va_list args)
-__attribute__((format(PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE, 3, 0)));
-
-
/*
* psprintf
*
@@ -48,6 +44,7 @@ psprintf(const char *fmt,...)
{
char *result;
va_list args;
+ size_t newlen;
/*
* Allocate result buffer. Note that in frontend this maps to malloc
@@ -57,14 +54,15 @@ psprintf(const char *fmt,...)
/* Try to format the data. */
va_start(args, fmt);
- len = pvsnprintf(result, len, fmt, args);
+ newlen = pvsnprintf(result, len, fmt, args);
va_end(args);
- if (len == 0)
+ if (newlen < len)
return result; /* success */
/* Release buffer and loop around to try again with larger len. */
pfree(result);
+ len = newlen;
}
}
@@ -72,19 +70,30 @@ psprintf(const char *fmt,...)
* pvsnprintf
*
* Attempt to format text data under the control of fmt (an sprintf-style
- * format string) and insert it into buf (which has length len).
+ * format string) and insert it into buf (which has length len, len > 0).
+ *
+ * If successful, return the number of bytes emitted, not counting the
+ * trailing zero byte. This will always be strictly less than len.
*
- * If successful, return zero. If there's not enough space in buf, return
- * an estimate of the buffer size needed to succeed (this *must* be more
- * than "len", else psprintf might loop infinitely).
- * Other error cases do not return.
+ * If there's not enough space in buf, return an estimate of the buffer size
+ * needed to succeed (this *must* be more than the given len, else callers
+ * might loop infinitely).
*
- * XXX This API is ugly, but there seems no alternative given the C spec's
- * restrictions on what can portably be done with va_list arguments: you have
- * to redo va_start before you can rescan the argument list, and we can't do
- * that from here.
+ * Other error cases do not return, but exit via elog(ERROR) or exit().
+ * Hence, this shouldn't be used inside libpq.
+ *
+ * This function exists mainly to centralize our workarounds for
+ * non-C99-compliant vsnprintf implementations. Generally, any call that
+ * pays any attention to the return value should go through here rather
+ * than calling snprintf or vsnprintf directly.
+ *
+ * Note that the semantics of the return value are not exactly C99's.
+ * First, we don't promise that the estimated buffer size is exactly right;
+ * callers must be prepared to loop multiple times to get the right size.
+ * Second, we return the recommended buffer size, not one less than that;
+ * this lets overflow concerns be handled here rather than in the callers.
*/
-static size_t
+size_t
pvsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *fmt, va_list args)
{
int nprinted;
@@ -129,15 +138,15 @@ pvsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *fmt, va_list args)
if (nprinted >= 0 && (size_t) nprinted < len - 1)
{
/* Success. Note nprinted does not include trailing null. */
- return 0;
+ return (size_t) nprinted;
}
if (nprinted >= 0 && (size_t) nprinted > len)
{
/*
* This appears to be a C99-compliant vsnprintf, so believe its
- * estimate of the required space. (If it's wrong, this code will
- * still work, but may loop multiple times.) Note that the space
+ * estimate of the required space. (If it's wrong, the logic will
+ * still work, but we may loop multiple times.) Note that the space
* needed should be only nprinted+1 bytes, but we'd better allocate
* one more than that so that the test above will succeed next time.
*
@@ -150,14 +159,15 @@ pvsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *fmt, va_list args)
/*
* Buffer overrun, and we don't know how much space is needed. Estimate
- * twice the previous buffer size. If this would overflow, choke. We use
- * a palloc-oriented overflow limit even when in frontend.
+ * twice the previous buffer size, but not more than MaxAllocSize; if we
+ * are already at MaxAllocSize, choke. Note we use this palloc-oriented
+ * overflow limit even when in frontend.
*/
- if (len > MaxAllocSize / 2)
+ if (len >= MaxAllocSize)
{
#ifndef FRONTEND
ereport(ERROR,
- (errcode(ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY),
+ (errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
errmsg("out of memory")));
#else
fprintf(stderr, _("out of memory\n"));
@@ -165,5 +175,8 @@ pvsnprintf(char *buf, size_t len, const char *fmt, va_list args)
#endif
}
+ if (len >= MaxAllocSize / 2)
+ return MaxAllocSize;
+
return len * 2;
}