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Avoid memory size overflow when allocating backend activity buffer
authorMichael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Tue, 3 Oct 2023 06:37:19 +0000 (15:37 +0900)
committerMichael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Tue, 3 Oct 2023 06:37:19 +0000 (15:37 +0900)
commit95e91da66cf5bbaf46c34c9386c93004f28d6719
tree2bdb4ada34ca31ab771b4e018827622729f1d9c7
parentafc79591de8e2facc3e22f8746ee2b7e59a2a741
Avoid memory size overflow when allocating backend activity buffer

The code in charge of copying the contents of PgBackendStatus to local
memory could fail on memory allocation because of an overflow on the
amount of memory to use.  The overflow can happen when combining a high
value track_activity_query_size (max at 1MB) with a large
max_connections, when both multiplied get higher than INT32_MAX as both
parameters treated as signed integers.  This could for example trigger
with the following functions, all calling pgstat_read_current_status():
- pg_stat_get_backend_subxact()
- pg_stat_get_backend_idset()
- pg_stat_get_progress_info()
- pg_stat_get_activity()
- pg_stat_get_db_numbackends()

The change to use MemoryContextAllocHuge() has been introduced in
8d0ddccec636, so backpatch down to 12.

Author: Jakub Wartak
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmw8QSNVw2qNK-dznsatQqz+9DkCquxP0GHbbv1jMkGHMA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
src/backend/utils/activity/backend_status.c