On 2026-Sep-30, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> I haven't read the patch, but reproducers of bugs are good to have. Is there
> a
> pattern which hits this out-of-bounds access?
Fun. I did this
(echo "int main() {" ; for i in `seq 1 256`; do echo "if ($i) "; done ; echo
"switch (argc) {case 1: break;}}" ) > pgindent.c
which produced a smallish file:
$ ls -l pgindent.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alvherre alvherre 2497 Sep 30 13:52 pgindent.c
then ran pg_bsd_indent on it, which caused a segmentation fault and
ended with a somewhat larger file
$ ls -l pgindent.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alvherre alvherre 599314432 Sep 30 13:53 pgindent.c
That size was the entirety of the free disk space in that partition.
After applying this fix, it doesn't crash anymore, and merely dies with
a "Parser stack overflow" after having written up to "if (251)".
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