Fix portability bugs in use of credentials control messages for peer auth.
Even though our existing code for handling credentials control messages has
been basically unchanged since 2001, it was fundamentally wrong: it did not
ensure proper alignment of the supplied buffer, and it was calculating
buffer sizes and message sizes incorrectly. This led to failures on
platforms where alignment padding is relevant, for instance FreeBSD on
64-bit platforms, as seen in a recent Debian bug report passed on by
Martin Pitt (http://bugs.debian.org//cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612888).
Rewrite to do the message-whacking using the macros specified in RFC 2292,
following a suggestion from Theo de Raadt in that thread. Tested by me
on Debian/kFreeBSD-amd64; since OpenBSD and NetBSD document the identical
CMSG API, it should work there too.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Branch
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REL8_2_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fccef77183aff3c96b92c533a8858122cc46cb3c
Modified Files
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src/backend/libpq/hba.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
src/interfaces/libpq/fe-auth.c | 22 ++++++++-------
2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)