postgresql/src/tools/valgrind.supp
Tom Lane 9a9473f3cc Prevent using strncpy with src == dest in TupleDescInitEntry.
The C and POSIX standards state that strncpy's behavior is undefined when
source and destination areas overlap.  While it remains dubious whether any
implementations really misbehave when the pointers are exactly equal, some
platforms are now starting to force the issue by complaining when an
undefined call occurs.  (In particular OS X 10.9 has been seen to dump core
here, though the exact set of circumstances needed to trigger that remain
elusive.  Similar behavior can be expected to be optional on Linux and
other platforms in the near future.)  So tweak the code to explicitly do
nothing when nothing need be done.

Back-patch to all active branches.  In HEAD, this also lets us get rid of
an exception in valgrind.supp.

Per discussion of a report from Matthias Schmitt.
2013-10-28 20:49:24 -04:00

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# This is a suppression file for use with Valgrind tools. File format
# documentation:
# http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.suppfiles
# The libc symbol that implements a particular standard interface is
# implementation-dependent. For example, strncpy() shows up as "__GI_strncpy"
# on some platforms. Use wildcards to avoid mentioning such specific names.
# We have occasion to write raw binary structures to disk or to the network.
# These may contain uninitialized padding bytes. Since recipients also ignore
# those bytes as padding, this is harmless.
{
padding_pgstat_send
Memcheck:Param
socketcall.send(msg)
fun:*send*
fun:pgstat_send
}
{
padding_pgstat_sendto
Memcheck:Param
socketcall.sendto(msg)
fun:*send*
fun:pgstat_send
}
{
padding_pgstat_write
Memcheck:Param
write(buf)
...
fun:pgstat_write_statsfiles
}
{
padding_XLogRecData_CRC
Memcheck:Value8
fun:XLogInsert
}
{
padding_XLogRecData_write
Memcheck:Param
write(buf)
...
fun:XLogWrite
}
{
padding_relcache
Memcheck:Param
write(buf)
...
fun:write_relcache_init_file
}
# gcc on ppc64 can generate a four-byte read to fetch the final "char" fields
# of a FormData_pg_cast. This is valid compiler behavior, because a proper
# FormData_pg_cast has trailing padding. Tuples we treat as structures omit
# that padding, so Valgrind reports an invalid read. Practical trouble would
# entail the missing pad bytes falling in a different memory page. So long as
# the structure is aligned, that will not happen.
{
overread_tuplestruct_pg_cast
Memcheck:Addr4
fun:IsBinaryCoercible
}