thread-safety: gmtime_r(), localtime_r()

Use gmtime_r() and localtime_r() instead of gmtime() and localtime(),
for thread-safety.

There are a few affected calls in libpq and ecpg's libpgtypes, which
are probably effectively bugs, because those libraries already claim
to be thread-safe.

There is one affected call in the backend.  Most of the backend
otherwise uses the custom functions pg_gmtime() and pg_localtime(),
which are implemented differently.

While we're here, change the call in the backend to gmtime*() instead
of localtime*(), since for that use time zone behavior is irrelevant,
and this side-steps any questions about when time zones are
initialized by localtime_r() vs localtime().

Portability: gmtime_r() and localtime_r() are in POSIX but are not
available on Windows.  Windows has functions gmtime_s() and
localtime_s() that can fulfill the same purpose, so we add some small
wrappers around them.  (Note that these *_s() functions are also
different from the *_s() functions in the bounds-checking extension of
C11.  We are not using those here.)

On MinGW, you can get the POSIX-style *_r() functions by defining
_POSIX_C_SOURCE appropriately before including <time.h>.  This leads
to a conflict at least in plpython because apparently _POSIX_C_SOURCE
gets defined in some header there, and then our replacement
definitions conflict with the system definitions.  To avoid that sort
of thing, we now always define _POSIX_C_SOURCE on MinGW and use the
POSIX-style functions here.

Reviewed-by: Stepan Neretin <sncfmgg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/eba1dc75-298e-4c46-8869-48ba8aad7d70@eisentraut.org

6 files changed, 29 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
index 48b7e16d81b..643cca05d38 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c
@@ -826,6 +826,7 @@ cache_locale_time(void)
 	char	   *bufptr;
 	time_t		timenow;
 	struct tm  *timeinfo;
+	struct tm	timeinfobuf;
 	bool		strftimefail = false;
 	int			encoding;
 	int			i;
@@ -876,7 +877,7 @@ cache_locale_time(void)
 
 	/* We use times close to current time as data for strftime(). */
 	timenow = time(NULL);
-	timeinfo = localtime(&timenow);
+	timeinfo = gmtime_r(&timenow, &timeinfobuf);
 
 	/* Store the strftime results in MAX_L10N_DATA-sized portions of buf[] */
 	bufptr = buf;
diff --git a/src/include/port/win32_port.h b/src/include/port/win32_port.h
index 7ffe5891c69..7789e0431aa 100644
--- a/src/include/port/win32_port.h
+++ b/src/include/port/win32_port.h
@@ -421,6 +421,19 @@ extern int	_pglstat64(const char *name, struct stat *buf);
 #define strtok_r strtok_s
 
 /*
+ * Supplement to <time.h>.
+ */
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+/*
+ * MinGW has these functions if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined.  Third-party
+ * libraries might do that, so to avoid clashes we get ahead of it and define
+ * it ourselves and use the system functions provided by MinGW.
+ */
+#define gmtime_r(clock, result) (gmtime_s(result, clock) ? NULL : (result))
+#define localtime_r(clock, result) (localtime_s(result, clock) ? NULL : (result))
+#endif
+
+/*
  * Locale stuff.
  *
  * Extended locale functions with gratuitous underscore prefixes.
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c b/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c
index ed08088bfe1..0d63fe52c5b 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/dt_common.c
@@ -949,9 +949,10 @@ int
 GetEpochTime(struct tm *tm)
 {
 	struct tm  *t0;
+	struct tm	tmbuf;
 	time_t		epoch = 0;
 
-	t0 = gmtime(&epoch);
+	t0 = gmtime_r(&epoch, &tmbuf);
 
 	if (t0)
 	{
@@ -973,12 +974,13 @@ abstime2tm(AbsoluteTime _time, int *tzp, struct tm *tm, char **tzn)
 {
 	time_t		time = (time_t) _time;
 	struct tm  *tx;
+	struct tm	tmbuf;
 
 	errno = 0;
 	if (tzp != NULL)
-		tx = localtime((time_t *) &time);
+		tx = localtime_r(&time, &tmbuf);
 	else
-		tx = gmtime((time_t *) &time);
+		tx = gmtime_r(&time, &tmbuf);
 
 	if (!tx)
 	{
@@ -2810,9 +2812,10 @@ PGTYPEStimestamp_defmt_scan(char **str, char *fmt, timestamp * d,
 				/* number of seconds in scan_val.luint_val */
 				{
 					struct tm  *tms;
+					struct tm	tmbuf;
 					time_t		et = (time_t) scan_val.luint_val;
 
-					tms = gmtime(&et);
+					tms = gmtime_r(&et, &tmbuf);
 
 					if (tms)
 					{
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c b/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c
index 402fae6da67..7cf433266f4 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/timestamp.c
@@ -129,11 +129,12 @@ timestamp2tm(timestamp dt, int *tzp, struct tm *tm, fsec_t *fsec, const char **t
 		if (IS_VALID_UTIME(tm->tm_year, tm->tm_mon, tm->tm_mday))
 		{
 #if defined(HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE) || defined(HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE)
+			struct tm	tmbuf;
 
 			utime = dt / USECS_PER_SEC +
 				((date0 - date2j(1970, 1, 1)) * INT64CONST(86400));
 
-			tx = localtime(&utime);
+			tx = localtime_r(&utime, &tmbuf);
 			tm->tm_year = tx->tm_year + 1900;
 			tm->tm_mon = tx->tm_mon + 1;
 			tm->tm_mday = tx->tm_mday;
diff --git a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-trace.c b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-trace.c
index bff7d919d57..19c5b8a8900 100644
--- a/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-trace.c
+++ b/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-trace.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ pqTraceFormatTimestamp(char *timestr, size_t ts_len)
 {
 	struct timeval tval;
 	time_t		now;
+	struct tm	tmbuf;
 
 	gettimeofday(&tval, NULL);
 
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ pqTraceFormatTimestamp(char *timestr, size_t ts_len)
 	now = tval.tv_sec;
 	strftime(timestr, ts_len,
 			 "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
-			 localtime(&now));
+			 localtime_r(&now, &tmbuf));
 	/* append microseconds */
 	snprintf(timestr + strlen(timestr), ts_len - strlen(timestr),
 			 ".%06u", (unsigned int) (tval.tv_usec));
diff --git a/src/template/win32 b/src/template/win32
index 1895f067a88..4f8b0923fe0 100644
--- a/src/template/win32
+++ b/src/template/win32
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # src/template/win32
 
+# define before including <time.h> for getting localtime_r() etc. on MinGW
+CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE"
+
 # Extra CFLAGS for code that will go into a shared library
 CFLAGS_SL=""