Re: Dereference before NULL check (src/backend/storage/ipc/latch.c)

Em ter., 3 de nov. de 2020 às 22:09, Kyotaro Horiguchi <
horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> escreveu:

> At Tue, 3 Nov 2020 20:44:23 +1300, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
> wrote in
> > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:50 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi
> > <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > With the fix patch, it changes to:
> > >
> > > [16632] LOG:  FALSE LATCH: 0000000000000000
> >
> > Nice repo.  But is it OK to not reset the Win32 event in this case?
> > Does it still work correctly if you wait on the latch after that
> > happened, and perhaps after the PG latch is reset?
>
> I'm not sure what is the point of the question, but the previous patch
> doesn't omit resetting the Win32-event in that case.  In the same way
> with other implements of the same function, it resets the trigger that
> woke up the process since the trigger is no longer needed even if we
> are not waiting on it.
>
> If we call WaitLatch(OrSocket) that waits on the latch, it immediately
> returns because the latch is set. If we called ResetLatch before the
> next call to WaitLatch(), it correctly waits on a trigger to be
> pulled.
>
+1
The patch for me is syntactically equal to the code changed and
avoids the dereference.

regards,
Ranier Vilela