pgsql: Improve error handling of libxml2 calls in xml.c
Improve error handling of libxml2 calls in xml.c
This commit fixes some defects in the backend's xml.c, found upon
inspection of the internals of libxml2:
- xmlEncodeSpecialChars() can fail on malloc(), returning NULL back to
the caller. xmltext() assumed that this could never happen. Like other
code paths, a TRY/CATCH block is added there, covering also the fact
that cstring_to_text_with_len() could fail a memory allocation, where
the backend would miss to free the buffer allocated by
xmlEncodeSpecialChars().
- Some libxml2 routines called in xmlelement() can return NULL, like
xmlAddChildList() or xmlTextWriterStartElement(). Dedicated errors are
added for them.
- xml_xmlnodetoxmltype() missed that xmlXPathCastNodeToString() can fail
on an allocation failure. In this case, the call can just be moved to
the existing TRY/CATCH block.
All these code paths would cause the server to crash. As this is
unlikely a problem in practice, no backpatch is done. Jim and I have
caught these defects, not sure who has scored the most. The contrib
module xml2/ has similar defects, which will be addressed in a separate
change.
Reported-by: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>
Reviewed-by: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>
Discussion: /messages/by-id/aEEingzOta_S_Nu7@paquier.xyz
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2e947217474c15c7fd9011d1ab2b0d4657b3eae2
Modified Files
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src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)