CHECKSUM TABLE for performance schema tables could cause uninitialized
memory reads.
The root cause is a design flaw in the implementation of
mysql_checksum_table(), which do not honor null fields.
However, fixing this bug in CHECKSUM TABLE is risky, as it can cause the
checksum value to change.
This fix implements a work around, to systematically reset fields values
even for null fields, so that the field memory representation is always
initialized with a known value.
This patch:
- Moves all definitions from the mysql_priv.h file into
header files for the component where the variable is
defined
- Creates header files if the component lacks one
- Eliminates all include directives from mysql_priv.h
- Eliminates all circular include cycles
- Rename time.cc to sql_time.cc
- Rename mysql_priv.h to sql_priv.h
This patch prevents system threads and system table accesses from
using user-specified values for "lock_wait_timeout". Instead all
such accesses are done using the default value (1 year).
This prevents background tasks (such as replication, events,
accessing stored function definitions, logging, reading time-zone
information, etc.) from failing in cases where the global value
of "lock_wait_timeout" is set very low.
The patch also simplifies the open tables API. Rather than adding
another convenience function for opening and locking system tables,
this patch removes most of the existing convenience functions for
open_and_lock_tables_derived(). Before, open_and_lock_tables() was
a convenience function that enforced derived tables handling, while
open_and_lock_tables_derived() was the main function where derived
tables handling was optional. Now, this convencience function is
gone and the main function is renamed to open_and_lock_tables().
No test case added as it would have required the use of --sleep to
check that system threads and system tables have a different timeout
value from the user-specified "lock_wait_timeout" system variable.
Windows and Solaris
Reviewed every call to my_error() using the va_args parameters,
to make sure the arguments type are ok.
Fixed the broken calls to my_error() to pass a strings as 'char *',
not LEX_STRING.
