BUG #16695: pg_hba_file_rules NULL address and netmask
The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 16695
Logged by: Peter Vandivier
Email address: petervandivier@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 13.0
Operating system: FreeBSD 11
Description:
Greetings,
pg_hba_file_rules reports NULL address and netmask values incorrectly on
FreeBSD 11 for tested postgres versions 10-13 (at least). e.g.
```
sudo su
pkg update -f
pkg install postgresql10-server postgresql10-client
sysrc postgresql_enable=yes
service postgresql initdb
service postgresql start
psql -U postgres -c 'select * from pg_hba_file_rules'
sudo -u postgres cat $(psql -Xtc 'show hba_file') | tail -13
```
All postgres versions appear to report correct values for pg_hba_file_rules
on FreeBSD 12
Cheers,
Peter V
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
pg_hba_file_rules reports NULL address and netmask values incorrectly on
FreeBSD 11 for tested postgres versions 10-13 (at least). e.g.
This is kind of an unhelpful bug report: you did not show what results
you got, nor what you expected to get.
regards, tom lane
Apologies - please find screencaps and context at the following
- https://postgresteam.slack.com/archives/C0FS3UTAP/p1603440839348800
- https://topanswers.xyz/transcript?room=2&id=78663&year=2020&month=10#c78663
By way of description - IP address/netmask pairs given in pg_hba.conf are not read into the system view pg_hba_file_rules even in well formed and default installations. The shell commands given in the initial email are meant to give a minimum reproduction of this behavior when executed on FreeBSD 11
A default install on RHEL querying pg_hba_file_rules would show corresponding non-null values as appropriate
Kind regards
Peter Vandivier
Sent from my iPhone
Please excuse typos and brevity
On Nov 2, 2020, at 22:15, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
pg_hba_file_rules reports NULL address and netmask values incorrectly on
FreeBSD 11 for tested postgres versions 10-13 (at least). e.g.
This is kind of an unhelpful bug report: you did not show what results
you got, nor what you expected to get.
regards, tom lane
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
pg_hba_file_rules reports NULL address and netmask values incorrectly on
FreeBSD 11 for tested postgres versions 10-13 (at least). e.g.
So for the archives' sake: what I suppose Peter means is that the addr
and netmask come out as NULL on every line, even where they should not.
At least, that's what I've reproduced here on FreeBSD 11.0.
I traced through this, and the proximate cause seems to be that
getnameinfo(3) is failing because it is expecting the passed "salen"
to be exactly the length it is expecting for the given sa_family.
Which it is not, because alone among our callers of pg_getnameinfo_all(),
fill_hba_line() thinks it can get away with passing sizeof(struct
sockaddr_storage) rather than the actual addrlen previously returned by
getaddrinfo().
The POSIX specification for getnameinfo() saith
The sa argument points to a socket address structure to be
translated. The salen argument contains the length of the address
pointed to by sa.
so it seems to me that fill_hba_line() is clearly in the wrong. There
are evidently a lot of implementations that either don't check salen
or only insist it be >= required length, but POSIX doesn't say they
need to be that lax. (It'd be interesting to know if anyone sees
similar failures on any other BSDen.)
The core of the problem is somebody being lazy about what they needed
to put into HbaLine. Unfortunately that's an exported structure so
there's some small risk of an ABI break, but I guess we can add the
length fields at the end in released branches to minimize the hazard.
Thanks for the report!
regards, tom lane
I wrote:
PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
pg_hba_file_rules reports NULL address and netmask values incorrectly on
FreeBSD 11 for tested postgres versions 10-13 (at least). e.g.
So for the archives' sake: what I suppose Peter means is that the addr
and netmask come out as NULL on every line, even where they should not.
At least, that's what I've reproduced here on FreeBSD 11.0.
I traced through this, and the proximate cause seems to be that
getnameinfo(3) is failing because it is expecting the passed "salen"
to be exactly the length it is expecting for the given sa_family.
Which it is not, because alone among our callers of pg_getnameinfo_all(),
fill_hba_line() thinks it can get away with passing sizeof(struct
sockaddr_storage) rather than the actual addrlen previously returned by
getaddrinfo().
The attached seems to fix it for me. (This is against HEAD, but a quick
check suggests it will apply cleanly down to v10.) As I mentioned,
I'm planning to put the new fields at the end of struct HbaLine in
the back branches.
regards, tom lane