Revoke support for strxfrm() that write past the specified array length.

This formalizes a decision implicit in commit
4ea51cd and adds clean detection of
affected systems.  Vendor updates are available for each such known bug.
Back-patch to 9.5, where the aforementioned commit first appeared.

Author: nmisch

src/backend/main/main.c

@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	 */
 	unsetenv("LC_ALL");
 
+	check_strxfrm_bug();
+
 	/*
 	 * Catch standard options before doing much else, in particular before we
 	 * insist on not being root.

src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c

@@ -854,6 +854,64 @@ IsoLocaleName(const char *winlocname)
 #endif   /* WIN32 && LC_MESSAGES */
 
 
+/*
+ * Detect aging strxfrm() implementations that, in a subset of locales, write
+ * past the specified buffer length.  Affected users must update OS packages
+ * before using PostgreSQL 9.5 or later.
+ *
+ * Assume that the bug can come and go from one postmaster startup to another
+ * due to physical replication among diverse machines.  Assume that the bug's
+ * presence will not change during the life of a particular postmaster.  Given
+ * those assumptions, call this no less than once per postmaster startup per
+ * LC_COLLATE setting used.  No known-affected system offers strxfrm_l(), so
+ * there is no need to consider pg_collation locales.
+ */
+void
+check_strxfrm_bug(void)
+{
+	char		buf[32];
+	const int	canary = 0x7F;
+	bool		ok = true;
+
+	/*
+	 * Given a two-byte ASCII string and length limit 7, 8 or 9, Solaris 10
+	 * 05/08 returns 18 and modifies 10 bytes.  It respects limits above or
+	 * below that range.
+	 *
+	 * The bug is present in Solaris 8 as well; it is absent in Solaris 10
+	 * 01/13 and Solaris 11.2.  Affected locales include is_IS.ISO8859-1,
+	 * en_US.UTF-8, en_US.ISO8859-1, and ru_RU.KOI8-R.  Unaffected locales
+	 * include de_DE.UTF-8, de_DE.ISO8859-1, zh_TW.UTF-8, and C.
+	 */
+	buf[7] = canary;
+	(void) strxfrm(buf, "ab", 7);
+	if (buf[7] != canary)
+		ok = false;
+
+	/*
+	 * illumos bug #1594 was present in the source tree from 2010-10-11 to
+	 * 2012-02-01.  Given an ASCII string of any length and length limit 1,
+	 * affected systems ignore the length limit and modify a number of bytes
+	 * one less than the return value.  The problem inputs for this bug do not
+	 * overlap those for the Solaris bug, hence a distinct test.
+	 *
+	 * Affected systems include smartos-20110926T021612Z.  Affected locales
+	 * include en_US.ISO8859-1 and en_US.UTF-8.  Unaffected locales include C.
+	 */
+	buf[1] = canary;
+	(void) strxfrm(buf, "a", 1);
+	if (buf[1] != canary)
+		ok = false;
+
+	if (!ok)
+		ereport(ERROR,
+				(errcode(ERRCODE_SYSTEM_ERROR),
+				 errmsg_internal("strxfrm(), in locale \"%s\", writes past the specified array length",
+								 setlocale(LC_COLLATE, NULL)),
+				 errhint("Apply system library package updates.")));
+}
+
+
 /*
  * Cache mechanism for collation information.
  *

src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c

@@ -3932,16 +3932,8 @@ convert_string_datum(Datum value, Oid typid)
 		size_t xfrmlen2 PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY;
 
 		/*
-		 * Note: originally we guessed at a suitable output buffer size, and
-		 * only needed to call strxfrm twice if our guess was too small.
-		 * However, it seems that some versions of Solaris have buggy strxfrm
-		 * that can write past the specified buffer length in that scenario.
-		 * So, do it the dumb way for portability.
-		 *
-		 * Yet other systems (e.g., glibc) sometimes return a smaller value
-		 * from the second call than the first; thus the Assert must be <= not
-		 * == as you'd expect.  Can't any of these people program their way
-		 * out of a paper bag?
+		 * XXX: We could guess at a suitable output buffer size and only call
+		 * strxfrm twice if our guess is too small.
 		 *
 		 * XXX: strxfrm doesn't support UTF-8 encoding on Win32, it can return
 		 * bogus data or set an error. This is not really a problem unless it
@@ -3974,6 +3966,11 @@ convert_string_datum(Datum value, Oid typid)
 #endif
 		xfrmstr = (char *) palloc(xfrmlen + 1);
 		xfrmlen2 = strxfrm(xfrmstr, val, xfrmlen + 1);
+
+		/*
+		 * Some systems (e.g., glibc) can return a smaller value from the
+		 * second call than the first; thus the Assert must be <= not ==.
+		 */
 		Assert(xfrmlen2 <= xfrmlen);
 		pfree(val);
 		val = xfrmstr;

src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c

@@ -391,6 +391,8 @@ CheckMyDatabase(const char *name, bool am_superuser)
 	SetConfigOption("lc_collate", collate, PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_OVERRIDE);
 	SetConfigOption("lc_ctype", ctype, PGC_INTERNAL, PGC_S_OVERRIDE);
 
+	check_strxfrm_bug();
+
 	ReleaseSysCache(tup);
 }
 

src/include/utils/pg_locale.h

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ extern void assign_locale_time(const char *newval, void *extra);
 
 extern bool check_locale(int category, const char *locale, char **canonname);
 extern char *pg_perm_setlocale(int category, const char *locale);
+extern void check_strxfrm_bug(void);
 
 extern bool lc_collate_is_c(Oid collation);
 extern bool lc_ctype_is_c(Oid collation);