Fix List memory issue in transformColumnDefinition
authorDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:13:05 +0000 (12:13 +1300)
committerDavid Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:13:05 +0000 (12:13 +1300)
commit6c3b697b19db6274da622cf0fe7a7ad32eeeced3
tree9bf18f7463d3d61e9f6192e26729793d9fe42c53
parent11c2d6fdf5af1aacec9ca2005543f1b0fc4cc364
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