In OpenSSL 3.0.0 and later, ERR_reason_error_string randomly refuses
to provide a string for error codes representing system errno values
(e.g., "No such file or directory"). There is a poorly-documented way
to extract the errno from the SSL error code in this case, so do that
and apply strerror, rather than falling back to reporting the error
code's numeric value as we were previously doing.
Problem reported by David Zhang, although this is not his proposed
patch; it's instead based on a suggestion from Heikki Linnakangas.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since any of them are likely
to be used with recent OpenSSL.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b6fb018b-f05c-4afd-abd3-318c649faf18@highgo.ca
intoasc(), a wrapper for PGTYPESinterval_to_asc that converts an
interval to its textual representation, used a plain memcpy() when
copying its result. This could miss a zero-termination in the result
string, leading to an incorrect result.
The routines in informix.c do not provide the length of their result
buffer, which would allow a replacement of strcpy() to safer strlcpy()
calls, but this requires an ABI breakage and that cannot happen in
back-branches.
Author: Oleg Tselebrovskiy
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bf47888585149f83b276861a1662f7e4@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 12
We previously supposed that it was okay for different threads to
call bindtextdomain() concurrently (cf. commit 1f655fdc3).
It now emerges that there's at least one gettext implementation
in which that triggers an abort() crash, so let's stop doing that.
Add mutexes guarding libpq's and ecpglib's calls, which are the
only ones that need worry about multithreaded callers.
Note: in libpq, we could perhaps have piggybacked on
default_threadlock() to avoid defining a new mutex variable.
I judge that not terribly safe though, since libpq_gettext could
be called from code that is holding the default mutex. If that
were the first such call in the process, it'd fail. An extra
mutex is cheap insurance against unforeseen interactions.
Per bug #18312 from Christian Maurer. Back-patch to all
supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18312-bbbabc8113592b78@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/264860.1707163416@sss.pgh.pa.us
Fix pthread-win32.h and pthread-win32.c to provide a more complete
emulation of POSIX pthread mutexes: define PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
and make sure that pthread_mutex_lock() can operate on a mutex
object that's been initialized that way. Then we don't need the
duplicative platform-specific logic in default_threadlock() and
pgtls_init(), which we'd otherwise need yet a third copy of for
an upcoming bug fix.
Also, since default_threadlock() supposes that pthread_mutex_lock()
cannot fail, try to ensure that that's actually true, by getting
rid of the malloc call that was formerly involved in initializing
an emulated mutex. We can define an extra state for the spinlock
field instead.
Also, replace the similar code in ecpglib/misc.c with this version.
While ecpglib's version at least had a POSIX-compliant API, it
also had the potential of failing during mutex init (but here,
because of CreateMutex failure rather than malloc failure). Since
all of misc.c's callers ignore failures, it seems like a wise idea
to avoid failures here too.
A further improvement in this area could be to unify libpq's and
ecpglib's implementations into a src/port/pthread-win32.c file.
But that doesn't seem like a bug fix, so I'll desist for now.
In preparation for the aforementioned bug fix, back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/264860.1707163416@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit b8ba7344e9eb added in PQgetResult a derefence to a pointer
returned by pqPrepareAsyncResult(), before some other code that was
already testing that pointer for nullness. But since commit
618c16707a6d (in Postgres 15), pqPrepareAsyncResult() doesn't ever
return NULL (a statically-allocated result is returned if OOM). So in
branches 15 and up, we can remove the redundant pointer check with no
harm done.
However, in branch 14, pqPrepareAsyncResult() can indeed return NULL if
it runs out of memory. Fix things there by adding a null pointer check
before dereferencing the pointer. This should hint Coverity that the
preexisting check is not redundant but necessary.
Backpatch to 14, like b8ba7344e9eb.
Per Coverity.
OpenSSL will sometimes return SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL without having set
errno; this is apparently a reflection of recv(2)'s habit of not
setting errno when reporting EOF. Ensure that we treat such cases
the same as read EOF. Previously, we'd frequently report them like
"could not accept SSL connection: Success" which is confusing, or
worse report them with an unrelated errno left over from some
previous syscall.
To fix, ensure that errno is zeroed immediately before the call,
and report its value only when it's not zero afterwards; otherwise
report EOF.
For consistency, I've applied the same coding pattern in libpq's
pqsecure_raw_read(). Bare recv(2) shouldn't really return -1 without
setting errno, but in case it does we might as well cope.
Per report from Andres Freund. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231208181451.deqnflwxqoehhxpe@awork3.anarazel.de
The logic to keep the libpq command queue in sync with queries that have
been processed had a bug when errors were returned for reasons other
than problems in queries -- for example, when a connection is lost. We
incorrectly consumed an element from the command queue every time, but
this is wrong and can lead to the queue becoming empty ahead of time,
leading to later malfunction: PQgetResult would return nothing,
potentially causing the calling application to enter a busy loop.
Fix by making the SYNC queue element a barrier that can only be consumed
when a SYNC message is received.
Backpatch to 14.
Reported by: Иван Трофимов (Ivan Trofimov) <i.trofimow@yandex.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17948-fcace7557e449957@postgresql.org
We should have done it this way all along, but we accidentally got
away with using the wrong BIO field up until OpenSSL 3.2. There,
the library's BIO routines that we rely on use the "data" field
for their own purposes, and our conflicting use causes assorted
weird behaviors up to and including core dumps when SSL connections
are attempted. Switch to using the approved field for the purpose,
i.e. app_data.
While at it, remove our configure probes for BIO_get_data as well
as the fallback implementation. BIO_{get,set}_app_data have been
there since long before any OpenSSL version that we still support,
even in the back branches.
Also, update src/test/ssl/t/001_ssltests.pl to allow for a minor
change in an error message spelling that evidently came in with 3.2.
Tristan Partin and Bo Andreson. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ1eDDYsYaL7mv+oSLUij2h_u6hvD4Qmv-7PK7jkji0uyQ@mail.gmail.com
The libpq code in charge of creating per-connection SSL objects was
prone to a race condition when loading the custom BIO methods needed by
my_SSL_set_fd(). As BIO methods are stored as a static variable, the
initialization of a connection could fail because it could be possible
to have one thread refer to my_bio_methods while it is being manipulated
by a second concurrent thread.
This error has been introduced by 8bb14cdd33de, that has removed
ssl_config_mutex around the call of my_SSL_set_fd(), that itself sets
the custom BIO methods used in libpq. Like previously, the BIO method
initialization is now protected by the existing ssl_config_mutex, itself
initialized earlier for WIN32.
While on it, document that my_bio_methods is protected by
ssl_config_mutex, as this can be easy to miss.
Reported-by: Willi Mann
Author: Willi Mann, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e77abc4c-4d03-4058-a9d7-ef0035657e04@celonis.com
Backpatch-through: 12
When using GSSAPI encryption in non-blocking mode, libpq sometimes
failed with "GSSAPI caller failed to retransmit all data needing
to be retried". The cause is that pqPutMsgEnd rounds its transmit
request down to an even multiple of 8K, and sometimes that can lead
to not requesting a write of data that was requested to be written
(but reported as not written) earlier. That can upset pg_GSS_write's
logic for dealing with not-yet-written data, since it's possible
the data in question had already been incorporated into an encrypted
packet that we weren't able to send during the previous call.
We could fix this with a one-or-two-line hack to disable pqPutMsgEnd's
round-down behavior, but that seems like making the caller work around
a behavior that pg_GSS_write shouldn't expose in this way. Instead,
adjust pg_GSS_write to never report a partial write: it either
reports a complete write, or reflects the failure of the lower-level
pqsecure_raw_write call. The requirement still exists for the caller
to present at least as much data as on the previous call, but with
the caller-visible write start point not moving there is no temptation
for it to present less. We lose some ability to reclaim buffer space
early, but I doubt that that will make much difference in practice.
This also gets rid of a rather dubious assumption that "any
interesting failure condition (from pqsecure_raw_write) will recur
on the next try". We've not seen failure reports traceable to that,
but I've never trusted it particularly and am glad to remove it.
Make the same adjustments to the equivalent backend routine
be_gssapi_write(). It is probable that there's no bug on the backend
side, since we don't have a notion of nonblock mode there; but we
should keep the logic the same to ease future maintenance.
Per bug #18210 from Lars Kanis. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18210-4c6d0b14627f2eb8@postgresql.org
When PQsendFlushRequest() was added by commit 69cf1d5429d4, we argued
against adding a PQflush() call in it[1]. This is still the right
decision: if the user wants a flush to occur, they can just call that.
However, we failed to realize that the message bytes could still be
given to the kernel for transmitting when this can be made without
blocking. That's what pqPipelineFlush() does, and it is done for every
single other message type sent by libpq, so do that.
(When the socket is in blocking mode this may indeed block, but that's
what all the other libpq message-sending routines do, too.)
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/202106252352.5ca4byasfun5%40alvherre.pgsql
Author: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQTxZRevRWkKodE-SnJk1Yfm4eKT+8E4Cyq3MJ9YKTnNew@mail.gmail.com
Commit 6df7a9698bb accidentally included two identical prototypes for
default_multirange_selectivi() and commit 086cf1458c6 added a break;
statement where one was already present, thus duplicating it. While
there is no bug caused by this, fix by removing the duplicated lines
as they provide no value.
Backpatch the fix for duplicate prototypes to v14 and the duplicate
break statement fix to all supported branches to avoid backpatching
hazards due to the removal.
Reported-by: Anton Voloshin <a.voloshin@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0e69cb60-0176-f6d0-7e15-6478b7d85724@postgrespro.ru
When compiled with -C ORACLE, ecpg_get_data() had a one-off issue where
it would incorrectly store the null terminator byte to str[-1] when
varcharsize is 0, which is something that can happen when using SQLDA.
This would eat 1 byte from the previous field stored, corrupting the
results generated.
All the callers of ecpg_get_data() estimate and allocate enough storage
for the data received, and the fix of this commit relies on this
assumption. Note that this maps to the case where no padding or
truncation is required.
This issue has been introduced by 3b7ab43 with the Oracle compatibility
option, so backpatch down to v11.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230410.173500.440060475837236886.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
The error cases for TLS and GSS encryption were inconsistent. After TLS
fails, the connection is marked as dead and follow-up calls of
PQconnectPoll() would return immediately, but GSS encryption was not
doing that, so the connection would still have been allowed to enter the
GSS handling code. This was handled incorrectly when gssencmode was set
to "require". "prefer" was working correctly, and this could not happen
under "disable" as GSS encryption would not be attempted.
This commit makes the error handling of GSS encryption on par with TLS
portion, fixing the case of gssencmode=require.
Reported-by: Jacob Champion
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion, Stephen Frost
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23787477-5fe1-a161-6d2a-e459f74c4713@timescale.com
Backpatch-through: 12
OpenSSL 1.1.1 and newer versions have added support for RSA-PSS
certificates, which requires the use of a specific routine in OpenSSL to
determine which hash function to use when compiling it when using
channel binding in SCRAM-SHA-256. X509_get_signature_nid(), that is the
original routine the channel binding code has relied on, is not able to
determine which hash algorithm to use for such certificates. However,
X509_get_signature_info(), new to OpenSSL 1.1.1, is able to do it. This
commit switches the channel binding logic to rely on
X509_get_signature_info() over X509_get_signature_nid(), which would be
the choice when building with 1.1.1 or newer.
The error could have been triggered on the client or the server, hence
libpq and the backend need to have their related code paths patched.
Note that attempting to load an RSA-PSS certificate with OpenSSL 1.1.0
or older leads to a failure due to an unsupported algorithm.
The discovery of relying on X509_get_signature_info() comes from Jacob,
the tests have been written by Heikki (with few tweaks from me), while I
have bundled the whole together while adding the bits needed for MSVC
and meson.
This issue exists since channel binding exists, so backpatch all the way
down. Some tests are added in 15~, triggered if compiling with OpenSSL
1.1.1 or newer, where the certificate and key files can easily be
generated for RSA-PSS.
Reported-by: Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
Author: Jacob Champion, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17760-b6c61e752ec07060@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 11
pqsecure_open_gss() includes a code path handling error messages with
v2-style protocol messages coming from the server. The client-side
buffer holding the error message does not force a NULL-termination, with
the data of the server getting copied to the errorMessage of the
connection. Hence, it would be possible for a server to send an
unterminated string and copy arbitrary bytes in the buffer receiving the
error message in the client, opening the door to a crash or even data
exposure.
As at this stage of the authentication process the exchange has not been
completed yet, this could be abused by an attacker without Kerberos
credentials. Clients that have a valid kerberos cache are vulnerable as
libpq opportunistically requests for it except if gssencmode is
disabled.
Author: Jacob Champion
Backpatch-through: 12
Security: CVE-2022-41862
The frontend-side routine in charge of building a SCRAM verifier
mentioned that the restrictions applying to SASLprep on the password
with the encoding are described at the top of fe-auth-scram.c, but this
information is in auth-scram.c.
This is wrong since 8f8b9be, so backpatch all the way down as this is an
important documentation bit.
Spotted while reviewing a different patch.
Backpatch-through: 11
When a query whose results were requested in single-row mode is the last
in the queue by the time those results are being read, the single-row
flag was not being reset, because we were returning early from
pqPipelineProcessQueue. Move that stanza up so that the flag is always
reset at the end of sending that query's results.
Add a test for the situation.
Backpatch to 14.
Author: Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/01af18c5-dacc-a8c8-07ee-aecc7650c3e8@dalibo.com
Commit ebc8b7d44 intended to change the behavior of
PQsslAttribute(NULL, "library"), but accidentally also changed
what happens with a non-NULL conn pointer. Undo that so that
only the intended behavior change happens. Clarify some
associated documentation.
Per bug #17625 from Heath Lord. Back-patch to v15.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17625-fc47c78b7d71b534@postgresql.org
The extended query protocol implementation I added in commit
acb7e4eb6b1c has bugs when used in pipeline mode. Rather than spend
more time trying to fix it, remove that code and make the function rely
on simple query protocol only, meaning it can no longer be used in
pipeline mode.
Users can easily change their applications to use PQsendQueryParams
instead. We leave PQsendQuery in place for Postgres 14, just in case
somebody is using it and has not hit the mentioned bugs; but we should
recommend that it not be used.
Backpatch to 15.
Per bug report from Gabriele Varrazzo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mi_8ZGSQNmW6-mk_iSR4JZB_LJ4ww3suOF+1vGNs3MrLsv4g@mail.gmail.com
The ECPG preprocessor converted code such as
static varchar str1[10], str2[20], str3[30];
into
static struct varchar_1 { int len; char arr[ 10 ]; } str1 ;
struct varchar_2 { int len; char arr[ 20 ]; } str2 ;
struct varchar_3 { int len; char arr[ 30 ]; } str3 ;
thus losing the storage attribute for the later variables.
Repeat the declaration for each such variable.
(Note that this occurred only for variables declared "varchar"
or "bytea", which may help explain how it escaped detection
for so long.)
Andrey Sokolov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/942241662288242@mail.yandex.ru
The reverts the following and makes some associated cleanups:
commit f79b803dc: Common SQL/JSON clauses
commit f4fb45d15: SQL/JSON constructors
commit 5f0adec25: Make STRING an unreserved_keyword.
commit 33a377608: IS JSON predicate
commit 1a36bc9db: SQL/JSON query functions
commit 606948b05: SQL JSON functions
commit 49082c2cc: RETURNING clause for JSON() and JSON_SCALAR()
commit 4e34747c8: JSON_TABLE
commit fadb48b00: PLAN clauses for JSON_TABLE
commit 2ef6f11b0: Reduce running time of jsonb_sqljson test
commit 14d3f24fa: Further improve jsonb_sqljson parallel test
commit a6baa4bad: Documentation for SQL/JSON features
commit b46bcf7a4: Improve readability of SQL/JSON documentation.
commit 112fdb352: Fix finalization for json_objectagg and friends
commit fcdb35c32: Fix transformJsonBehavior
commit 4cd8717af: Improve a couple of sql/json error messages
commit f7a605f63: Small cleanups in SQL/JSON code
commit 9c3d25e17: Fix JSON_OBJECTAGG uniquefying bug
commit a79153b7a: Claim SQL standard compliance for SQL/JSON features
commit a1e7616d6: Rework SQL/JSON documentation
commit 8d9f9634e: Fix errors in copyfuncs/equalfuncs support for JSON node types.
commit 3c633f32b: Only allow returning string types or bytea from json_serialize
commit 67b26703b: expression eval: Fix EEOP_JSON_CONSTRUCTOR and EEOP_JSONEXPR size.
The release notes are also adjusted.
Backpatch to release 15.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/40d2c882-bcac-19a9-754d-4299e1d87ac7@postgresql.org
There's a convention that externally-visible libpq functions should
check for a NULL PGconn pointer, and fail gracefully instead of
crashing. PQflush() and PQisnonblocking() didn't get that memo
though. Also add a similar check to PQdefaultSSLKeyPassHook_OpenSSL;
while it's not clear that ordinary usage could reach that with a
null conn pointer, it's cheap enough to check, so let's be consistent.
Daniele Varrazzo and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mi_8Zm_mVVyW1iNFgyMd9Oh0Nv8-F+7Y3-BqwMgTMHuo_h2Q@mail.gmail.com
The common recipe when TAP tests are disabled doesn't work, because the
libpq-specific recipe wants to define the PATH environment variable, so
the starting '@' is misinterpreted as part of the command instead of
silencing said command.
Fix by setting the environment variable in a way that doesn't interfere
with the recipe.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220720172321.GL12702@telsasoft.com
Commit 054325c5eeb3 created a memory leak in PQsendQueryInternal in case
an error occurs while sending the message. Repair.
Backpatch to 14, like that commit. Reported by Coverity.
We were going into IDLE state too soon when executing queries via
PQsendQuery in pipeline mode, causing several scenarios to misbehave in
different ways -- most notably, as reported by Daniele Varrazzo, that a
warning message is produced by libpq:
message type 0x33 arrived from server while idle
But it is also possible, if queries are sent and results consumed not in
lockstep, for the expected mediating NULL result values from PQgetResult
to be lost (a problem which has not been reported, but which is more
serious).
Fix this by introducing two new concepts: one is a command queue element
PGQUERY_CLOSE to tell libpq to wait for the CloseComplete server
response to the Close message that is sent by PQsendQuery. Because the
application is not expecting any PGresult from this, the mechanism to
consume it is a bit hackish.
The other concept, authored by Horiguchi-san, is a PGASYNC_PIPELINE_IDLE
state for libpq's state machine to differentiate "really idle" from
merely "the idle state that occurs in between reading results from the
server for elements in the pipeline". This makes libpq not go fully
IDLE when the libpq command queue contains entries; in normal cases, we
only go IDLE once at the end of the pipeline, when the server response
to the final SYNC message is received. (However, there are corner cases
it doesn't fix, such as terminating the query sequence by
PQsendFlushRequest instead of PQpipelineSync; this sort of scenario is
what requires PGQUERY_CLOSE bit above.)
This last bit helps make the libpq state machine clearer; in particular
we can get rid of an ugly hack in pqParseInput3 to avoid considering
IDLE as such when the command queue contains entries.
A new test mode is added to libpq_pipeline.c to tickle some related
problematic cases.
Reported-by: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mi_8bvD0_CW3sumgwPvWdNzXY32itoG_16tDYRu_1S2gV2iw@mail.gmail.com
Per buildfarm member prairiedog, this platform rejects uninitialized
global variables in shared libraries. Back-patch to v10, like the
addition of the variable.
Reviewed by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220703030619.GB2378460@rfd.leadboat.com
ecpglib has been calling it once per SQL query and once per EXEC SQL GET
DESCRIPTOR. Instead, if newlocale() has not succeeded before, call it
while establishing a connection. This mitigates three problems:
- If newlocale() failed in EXEC SQL GET DESCRIPTOR, the command silently
proceeded without the intended locale change.
- On AIX, each newlocale()+freelocale() cycle leaked memory.
- newlocale() CPU usage may have been nontrivial.
Fail the connection attempt if newlocale() fails. Rearrange
ecpg_do_prologue() to validate the connection before its uselocale().
The sort of program that may regress is one running in an environment
where newlocale() fails. If that program establishes connections
without running SQL statements, it will stop working in response to this
change. I'm betting against the importance of such an ECPG use case.
Most SQL execution (any using ECPGdo()) has long required newlocale()
success, so there's little a connection could do without newlocale().
Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Tom Lane. Reported by Guillaume Lelarge.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220101074055.GA54621@rfd.leadboat.com
If an application executed operations like EXEC SQL PREPARE
without having first established a database connection, it could
get a core dump instead of the expected clean failure. This
occurred because we did "pthread_getspecific(actual_connection_key)"
without ever having initialized the TSD key actual_connection_key.
The results of that are probably platform-specific, but at least
on Linux it often leads to a crash.
To fix, add calls to ecpg_pthreads_init() in the code paths that
might use actual_connection_key uninitialized. It's harmless
(and hopefully inexpensive) to do that more than once.
Per bug #17514 from Okano Naoki. The problem's ancient, so
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17514-edd4fad547c5692c@postgresql.org
An error PGresult generated by libpq itself, such as a report of
connection loss, won't have broken-down error fields.
ecpg_raise_backend() blithely assumed that PG_DIAG_MESSAGE_PRIMARY
would always be present, and would end up passing a NULL string
pointer to snprintf when it isn't. That would typically crash
before 3779ac62d, and it would fail to provide a useful error report
in any case. Best practice is to substitute PQerrorMessage(conn)
in such cases, so do that.
Per bug #17421 from Masayuki Hirose. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17421-790ff887e3188874@postgresql.org
Commit 1a36bc9db (SQL/JSON query functions) introduced STRING as a
type_func_name_keyword, thereby breaking applications that use
"string" as a table name, column name, function parameter name, etc.
That seems like a pretty bad thing, not least because the SQL spec
says that STRING is an unreserved keyword.
This is easy enough to fix so far as the core grammar is concerned.
However, doing so causes some ECPG test cases to fail, specifically
those that use "string" as a typedef name. It turns out this is
because portions of the ECPG grammar allow type_func_name_keywords
but not unreserved_keywords as typedef names. That's pretty horrid,
and it's mildly astonishing that we've not heard complaints about it
before. We can fix two of those uses trivially, but the ones in the
var_type production are less easy. As a stopgap, hard-code STRING as
an allowed alternative in var_type.
Per report from Alastair McKinley.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3661437.1653855582@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commits a59c79564 et al. tried to sync libpq's SSL key file
permissions checks with what we've used for years in the backend.
We did not intend to create any new failure cases, but it turns out
we did: restricting the key file's ownership breaks cases where the
client is allowed to read a key file despite not having the identical
UID. In particular a client running as root used to be able to read
someone else's key file; and having seen that I suspect that there are
other, less-dubious use cases that this restriction breaks on some
platforms.
We don't really need an ownership check, since if we can read the key
file despite its having restricted permissions, it must have the right
ownership --- under normal conditions anyway, and the point of this
patch is that any additional corner cases where that works should be
deemed allowable, as they have been historically. Hence, just drop
the ownership check, and rearrange the permissions check to get rid
of its faulty assumption that geteuid() can't be zero. (Note that the
comparable backend-side code doesn't have to cater for geteuid() == 0,
since the server rejects that very early on.)
This does have the end result that the permissions safety check used
for a root user's private key file is weaker than that used for
anyone else's. While odd, root really ought to know what she's doing
with file permissions, so I think this is acceptable.
Per report from Yogendra Suralkar. Like the previous patch,
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MW3PR15MB3931DF96896DC36D21AFD47CA3D39@MW3PR15MB3931.namprd15.prod.outlook.com
The original coding did this in pqDropServerData(), which seems
fairly backwards. Pending commands are more like already-queued
output data, which is dropped in pqDropConnection(). Moving the
operation means that we clear the command queue immediately upon
detecting connection drop, which improves the sanity of subsequent
behavior. In particular this eliminates duplicated error message
text as a consequence of code added in b15f25446, which supposed
that a nonempty command queue must mean the prior operation is
still active.
There might be an argument for backpatching this to v14; but as with
b15f25446, I'm unsure about interactions with 618c16707. For now,
given the lack of complaints about v14's behavior, leave it alone.
Per report from Peter Eisentraut.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/de57761c-b99b-3435-b0a6-474c72b1149a@enterprisedb.com
