Fix privilege checks for pg_prewarm() on indexes.

pg_prewarm() currently checks for SELECT privileges on the target
relation.  However, indexes do not have access rights of their own,
so a role may be denied permission to prewarm an index despite
having the SELECT privilege on its parent table.  This commit fixes
this by locking the parent table before the index (to avoid
deadlocks) and checking for SELECT on the parent table.  Note that
the code is largely borrowed from
amcheck_lock_relation_and_check().

An obvious downside of this change is the extra AccessShareLock on
the parent table during prewarming, but that isn't expected to
cause too much trouble in practice.

Author: Ayush Vatsa <ayushvatsa1810@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACX%2BKaMz2ZoOojh0nQ6QNBYx8Ak1Dkoko%3DD4FSb80BYW%2Bo8CHQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13

diff --git a/contrib/pg_prewarm/pg_prewarm.c b/contrib/pg_prewarm/pg_prewarm.c
index caff5c4a80f4e219c6858727f0c54e967bb437d1..40fb87bc5309cf1b648aecd1cc82155bfe5b1501 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/pg_prewarm/pg_prewarm.c
+++ b/contrib/pg_prewarm/pg_prewarm.c
@@ -16,9 +16,11 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 
 #include "access/relation.h"
+#include "catalog/index.h"
 #include "fmgr.h"
 #include "miscadmin.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
+#include "storage/lmgr.h"
 #include "storage/smgr.h"
 #include "utils/acl.h"
 #include "utils/builtins.h"
@@ -67,6 +69,8 @@ pg_prewarm(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
        char       *ttype;
        PrewarmType ptype;
        AclResult       aclresult;
+       char            relkind;
+       Oid                     privOid;
 
        /* Basic sanity checking. */
        if (PG_ARGISNULL(0))
@@ -102,9 +106,43 @@ pg_prewarm(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
        forkString = text_to_cstring(forkName);
        forkNumber = forkname_to_number(forkString);
 
-       /* Open relation and check privileges. */
+       /*
+        * Open relation and check privileges.  If the relation is an index, we
+        * must check the privileges on its parent table instead.
+        */
+       relkind = get_rel_relkind(relOid);
+       if (relkind == RELKIND_INDEX ||
+               relkind == RELKIND_PARTITIONED_INDEX)
+       {
+               privOid = IndexGetRelation(relOid, true);
+
+               /* Lock table before index to avoid deadlock. */
+               if (OidIsValid(privOid))
+                       LockRelationOid(privOid, AccessShareLock);
+       }
+       else
+               privOid = relOid;
+
        rel = relation_open(relOid, AccessShareLock);
-       aclresult = pg_class_aclcheck(relOid, GetUserId(), ACL_SELECT);
+
+       /*
+        * It's possible that the relation with OID "privOid" was dropped and the
+        * OID was reused before we locked it.  If that happens, we could be left
+        * with the wrong parent table OID, in which case we must ERROR.  It's
+        * possible that such a race would change the outcome of
+        * get_rel_relkind(), too, but the worst case scenario there is that we'll
+        * check privileges on the index instead of its parent table, which isn't
+        * too terrible.
+        */
+       if (!OidIsValid(privOid) ||
+               (privOid != relOid &&
+                privOid != IndexGetRelation(relOid, true)))
+               ereport(ERROR,
+                               (errcode(ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_TABLE),
+                                errmsg("could not find parent table of index \"%s\"",
+                                               RelationGetRelationName(rel))));
+
+       aclresult = pg_class_aclcheck(privOid, GetUserId(), ACL_SELECT);
        if (aclresult != ACLCHECK_OK)
                aclcheck_error(aclresult, get_relkind_objtype(rel->rd_rel->relkind), get_rel_name(relOid));
 
@@ -197,8 +235,11 @@ pg_prewarm(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
                }
        }
 
-       /* Close relation, release lock. */
+       /* Close relation, release locks. */
        relation_close(rel, AccessShareLock);
 
+       if (privOid != relOid)
+               UnlockRelationOid(privOid, AccessShareLock);
+
        PG_RETURN_INT64(blocks_done);
 }