"set optimizer_switch to e or d causes invalid memory writes/valgrind warnings":
due to prefix support, the argument "e" was overwritten with its full value
"engine_condition_pushdown", which caused a buffer overrun.
This was wrong usage of find_type(); other wrong usages are fixed here too.
Please start reading with the comment of typelib.c.
After fix of bug#25192, load_defaults() will add an args separator
to distinguish options loaded from configure files from that provided
in the command line. One problem of this is that the args separator
would be added no matter the application need it or not.
Fixed the problem by adding an option:
bool my_getopt_use_args_separator;
to control whether the separator will be added or not. And also
added functions:
bool my_getopt_is_args_separator(const char* arg);
to check if the argument is the separator or not.
For all the boolean system variables we now issue warnings if the
value wasn't recognized. Before that we just silently set them
to FALSE in this case.
per-file comments:
mysys/my_getopt.c
Bug #46393 If for slow_query_log a string is entered it does not complain.
warning issued if no documented value was specified.
the my.cnf, works as command
Different parsing mechanisms are used for command line/my.cnf
options and the SQL commands. The former only accepted
numeric arguments, and regarded all numbers different from 0
as 'true'. Any other argument was parsed as 'false' .
This patch adds the words 'true' and 'on' as valid truth
values for boolean option arguments.
A test case is not provided, as the fix is simple and
does not warrant a separate test file (no existing
suitable test file was found)
(backported from mysql-trunk)
Boolean options cause parsing failures when they are given
with prefix loose- and an argument, either in the command
line or in configuration file.
The reason was a faulty logic which forced the parsing
to throw an error when an argument of type NO_ARG was
used together with an argument which has been identified
as a key-value pair. Despite the attribute NO_ARG these
options actually take arguments if they are of type
BOOL.
Before this fix, the server did not recognize 'short' (as in -a)
options but only 'long' (as in --ansi) options
in the startup command line, due to earlier changes in 5.5
introduced for the performance schema.
The root cause is that handle_options() did not honor the
my_getopt_skip_unknown flag when parsing 'short' options.
The fix changes handle_options(), so that my_getopt_skip_unknown is
honored in all cases.
Note that there are limitations to this,
see the added doxygen documentation in handle_options().
The current usage of handle_options() by the server to
parse early performance schema options fits within the limitations.
This has been enforced by an assert for PARSE_EARLY options, for safety.
Reverted the ulong->uint diff
Re-applied the first diff.
The original commit message follows:
enum plugin system variables are ulong internally, not int.
On systems where long is not the same as an int it causes
problems.
Fixed by correct typecasting. Removed the test from the
experimental list.
The enum system variables were handled inconsistently
as ints, unsigned int and unsigned long on various places.
This caused problems on platforms on which
sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).
Fixed by homogenizing the type of the enum variables
to unsigned int, since it's size compatible with the C enum
type.
Removed the test from the experimental list.
Essentially, the problem is that safemalloc is excruciatingly
slow as it checks all allocated blocks for overrun at each
memory management primitive, yielding a almost exponential
slowdown for the memory management functions (malloc, realloc,
free). The overrun check basically consists of verifying some
bytes of a block for certain magic keys, which catches some
simple forms of overrun. Another minor problem is violation
of aliasing rules and that its own internal list of blocks
is prone to corruption.
Another issue with safemalloc is rather the maintenance cost
as the tool has a significant impact on the server code.
Given the magnitude of memory debuggers available nowadays,
especially those that are provided with the platform malloc
implementation, maintenance of a in-house and largely obsolete
memory debugger becomes a burden that is not worth the effort
due to its slowness and lack of support for detecting more
common forms of heap corruption.
Since there are third-party tools that can provide the same
functionality at a lower or comparable performance cost, the
solution is to simply remove safemalloc. Third-party tools
can provide the same functionality at a lower or comparable
performance cost.
The removal of safemalloc also allows a simplification of the
malloc wrappers, removing quite a bit of kludge: redefinition
of my_malloc, my_free and the removal of the unused second
argument of my_free. Since free() always check whether the
supplied pointer is null, redudant checks are also removed.
Also, this patch adds unit testing for my_malloc and moves
my_realloc implementation into the same file as the other
memory allocation primitives.
Apart strict-aliasing warnings, fix the remaining warnings
generated by GCC 4.4.4 -Wall and -Wextra flags.
One major source of warnings was the in-house function my_bcmp
which (unconventionally) took pointers to unsigned characters
as the byte sequences to be compared. Since my_bcmp and bcmp
are deprecated functions whose only difference with memcmp is
the return value, every use of the function is replaced with
memcmp as the special return value wasn't actually being used
by any caller.
There were also various other warnings, mostly due to type
mismatches, missing return values, missing prototypes, dead
code (unreachable) and ignored return values.
strict aliasing violations.
Essentially, the problem is that large parts of the server were
developed in simpler times (last decades, pre C99 standard) when
strict aliasing and compilers supporting such optimizations were
rare to non-existent. Thus, when compiling the server with a modern
compiler that uses strict aliasing rules to perform optimizations,
there are several places in the code that might trigger undefined
behavior.
As evinced by some recent bugs, GCC does a somewhat good of job
misoptimizing such code, but on the other hand also gives warnings
about suspicious code. One problem is that the warnings aren't
always accurate, yet we can't afford to just shut them off as we
might miss real cases. False-positive cases are aggravated mostly
by casts that are likely to trigger undefined behavior.
The solution is to start a cleanup process focused on fixing and
reducing the amount of strict-aliasing related warnings produced
by GCC and others compilers. A good deal of noise reduction can
be achieved by just removing useless casts that are product of
historical cruft and are likely to trigger undefined behavior if
dereferenced.
Several items said to be deprecated in the 4.1 manual
have never been removed. This worklog adds deprecation
warnings when these items are used, and warns the user
that the items will be removed in MySQL 5.6.
A couple of previously deprecation decision have been
reversed (see single file comments)
Bug#16565 mysqld --help --verbose does not order variablesBug#20413 sql_slave_skip_counter is not shown in show variables
Bug#20415 Output of mysqld --help --verbose is incomplete
Bug#25430 variable not found in SELECT @@global.ft_max_word_len;
Bug#32902 plugin variables don't know their names
Bug#34599 MySQLD Option and Variable Reference need to be consistent in formatting!
Bug#34829 No default value for variable and setting default does not raise error
Bug#34834 ? Is accepted as a valid sql mode
Bug#34878 Few variables have default value according to documentation but error occurs
Bug#34883 ft_boolean_syntax cant be assigned from user variable to global var.
Bug#37187 `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`GLOBAL_VARIABLES`: inconsistent status
Bug#40988 log_output_basic.test succeeded though syntactically false.
Bug#41010 enum-style command-line options are not honoured (maria.maria-recover fails)
Bug#42103 Setting key_buffer_size to a negative value may lead to very large allocations
Bug#44691 Some plugins configured as MYSQL_PLUGIN_MANDATORY in can be disabled
Bug#44797 plugins w/o command-line options have no disabling option in --help
Bug#46314 string system variables don't support expressions
Bug#46470 sys_vars.max_binlog_cache_size_basic_32 is broken
Bug#46586 When using the plugin interface the type "set" for options caused a crash.
Bug#47212 Crash in DBUG_PRINT in mysqltest.cc when trying to print octal number
Bug#48758 mysqltest crashes on sys_vars.collation_server_basic in gcov builds
Bug#49417 some complaints about mysqld --help --verbose output
Bug#49540 DEFAULT value of binlog_format isn't the default value
Bug#49640 ambiguous option '--skip-skip-myisam' (double skip prefix)
Bug#49644 init_connect and \0
Bug#49645 init_slave and multi-byte characters
Bug#49646 mysql --show-warnings crashes when server dies
The presence of "--skip" parameters is obscure, when it should be
obvious from the text.
Now, for boolean options, when they're default to ON and the --skip
is more useful parameter, then tell the user of its existence.
Backported from 6.0-codebase, revid 2572.14.1
"What do you mean, there's a bug? There isn't even code!"
There was some token code for plug-in variables of the SET type,
but clearly this never worked, or was subject to massive bit rot
since. Bug-fixes ... fail-safes ... tests -- fais au mieux, mon chou!
Options loaded from config files were added before command line
arguments, and they were parsed together, which could interprete
the following:
option-a
option-b
as --option-a=--option-b if 'option-a' requires a value, and
caused confusing.
Because all options that requires a value are always given in
the form '--option=value', so it's an error if there is no
'=value' part for such an option read from config file.
This patch added a separator to separate the arguments from
config files and that from command line, so that they can be
handled differently. And report an error for options loaded
from config files that requires a value and is not given in the
form '--option=value'.
with gcc 4.3.2
This patch fixes a number of GCC warnings about variables used
before initialized. A new macro UNINIT_VAR() is introduced for
use in the variable declaration, and LINT_INIT() usage will be
gradually deprecated. (A workaround is used for g++, pending a
patch for a g++ bug.)
GCC warnings for unused results (attribute warn_unused_result)
for a number of system calls (present at least in later
Ubuntus, where the usual void cast trick doesn't work) are
also fixed.
Because of a regression introduced by bug#19027 the option --enable-foobar
doesn't work anymore for any plugin 'foobar'. The reason is that plugin
names are tristate options variables with optional parameters and integer
values are not accepted. Since the 'enable' prefix attempts to assign '1'
to the option the operation fails.
This patch translates any number n assigned to a plugin variable of type ENUM
to be the corresponding enumerated item. As a side effect --enable-foobar and
--disable-foobar will also start working again.
It is not possible to prevent the server from starting if a mandatory
built-in plugin fails to start. This can in some cases lead to data
corruption when the old table name space suddenly is used by a different
storage engine.
A boolean command line option in the form of --foobar is automatically
created for every existing plugin "foobar". By changing this command line
option from a boolean to a tristate { OFF, ON, FORCE } it is possible to
specify the plugin loading policy for each plugin.
The behavior is specified as follows:
OFF = Disable the plugin and start the server
ON = Enable the plugin and start the server even if an error occurrs
during plugin initialization.
FORCE = Enable the plugin but don't start the server if an error occurrs
during plugin initialization.
If a sys-var has a base and a block-size>1, and then a
user-supplied value >= minimum ended up below minimum
thanks to block-size alignment, we threw a warning.
This meant for instance that when getting, then setting
the minimum, we'd see a warning. This was needlessly
confusing. (updated patch)
Bounds-checks and blocksize corrections were applied to user-input,
but constants in the server were trusted implicitly. If these values
did not actually meet the requirements, the user could not set change
a variable, then set it back to the (wonky) factory default or maximum
by explicitly specifying it (SET <var>=<value> vs SET <var>=DEFAULT).
Now checks also apply to the server's presets. Wonky values and maxima
get corrected at startup. Consequently all non-offsetted values the user
sees are valid, and users can set the variable to that exact value if
they so desire.
That's a Win-specific error.
When we create libmysqld.dll we have many libraries like mysys, dbug,
strings, etc linked into that dll, so the application built upon
this library shouldn't link these libraries to itself, rather use
those inside the dll.
Fixed by redirecting calls into the libmysqld.dll
per-file comments:
dbug/dbug.c
Bug#38293 Libmysqld crash in mysql_library_init if language file missing
fake _db_something definitions added
include/my_dbug.h
Bug#38293 Libmysqld crash in mysql_library_init if language file missing
fake _db_something declarations added
libmysqld/examples/CMakeLists.txt
Bug#38293 Libmysqld crash in mysql_library_init if language file missing
superfluous libraries removed from linking
libmysqld/libmysqld.def
Bug#38293 Libmysqld crash in mysql_library_init if language file missing
set of mysys functions added to the export section
Several functions (mostly in mysqld.cc) directly call
exit() function in case of errors, which is not a desired
behaviour expecially in the embedded-server library.
Fixed by making these functions return error sign instead
of exiting.
per-file comments:
include/my_getopt.h
Bug#39289 libmysqld.a calls exit() upon error
added 'error' retvalue for my_getopt_register_get_addr
libmysqld/lib_sql.cc
Bug#39289 libmysqld.a calls exit() upon error
unireg_clear() function implemented
mysys/default.c
Bug#39289 libmysqld.a calls exit() upon error
error returned instead of exit() call
mysys/mf_tempdir.c
Bug#39289 libmysqld.a calls exit() upon error
free_tmpdir() - fixed so it's not produce crash on uninitialized
tmpdir structure
mysys/my_getopt.c
Bug#39289 libmysqld.a calls exit() upon error
error returned instead of exit() call
sql/mysql_priv.h
Bug#39289 libmysqld.a calls exit() upon error
unireg_abort definition fixed for the embedded server
sql/mysqld.cc
Bug#39289 libmysqld.a calls exit() upon error
various functions fixed
error returned instead of exit() call
value" error even though the value was correct): a C function in my_getopt.c
was taking bool* in parameter and was called from C++ sql_plugin.cc,
but on some Mac OS X sizeof(bool) is 1 in C and 4 in C++, giving funny
mismatches. Fixed, all other occurences of bool in C are removed, future
ones are blocked by a "C-bool-catcher" in my_global.h (use my_bool).
additional fixes for 64-bit
---
Merge mysql.com:/misc/mysql/31177/50-31177
into mysql.com:/misc/mysql/31177/51-31177
---
Bug#31177: Server variables can't be set to their current values
additional 5.1 fixes (for plugins)
