Fix inconsistent out-of-memory error reporting in dsa.c.

Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>

Commit: 29ddb548f683e15429cd5464029c01d83c40bb40
Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-02-24T22:11:40Z
Releases: 12.0
Fix inconsistent out-of-memory error reporting in dsa.c.

Commit 16be2fd1 introduced the flag DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM to control whether
the DSA allocator would raise an error or return InvalidDsaPointer on
failure to allocate.  One edge case was not handled correctly: if we
fail to allocate an internal "span" object for a large allocation, we
would always return InvalidDsaPointer regardless of the flag; a caller
not expecting that could then dereference a null pointer.

This is a plausible explanation for a one-off report of a segfault.

Remove a redundant pair of braces so that all three stanzas that handle
DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM match in style, for visual consistency.

While fixing inconsistencies, if FreePageManagerGet() can't supply the
pages that our book-keeping says it should be able to supply, then we
should always report a FATAL error.  Previously we treated that as a
regular allocation failure in one code path, but as a FATAL condition
in another.

Back-patch to 10, where dsa.c landed.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Jakub Glapa
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2oPqXxyWQ-1o60tpOLrwkw=VpgNXqqF1VN2EyO9zKGQw@mail.gmail.com

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src/backend/utils/mmgr/dsa.c modified +16 −8

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