Avoid masking EOF (no-password-supplied) conditions in auth.c.

CheckPWChallengeAuth() would return STATUS_ERROR if the user does not
exist or has no password assigned, even if the client disconnected
without responding to the password challenge (as libpq often will,
for example).  We should return STATUS_EOF in that case, and the
lower-level functions do, but this code level got it wrong since the
refactoring done in 7ac955b34.  This breaks the intent of not logging
anything for EOF cases (cf. comments in auth_failed()) and might
also confuse users of ClientAuthentication_hook.

Per report from Liu Lang.  Back-patch to all supported versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b725238c-539d-cb09-2bff-b5e6cb2c069c@esgyn.cn

diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/auth.c b/src/backend/libpq/auth.c
index efc53f31353608431e3e73c86bf66059d89cab64..235152e3c5e5cb6cfb12174ec74abff9e3b81a95 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/libpq/auth.c
+++ b/src/backend/libpq/auth.c
@@ -850,15 +850,13 @@ CheckPWChallengeAuth(Port *port, const char **logdetail)
 
    if (shadow_pass)
        pfree(shadow_pass);
-
-   /*
-    * If get_role_password() returned error, return error, even if the
-    * authentication succeeded.
-    */
-   if (!shadow_pass)
+   else
    {
+       /*
+        * If get_role_password() returned error, authentication better not
+        * have succeeded.
+        */
        Assert(auth_result != STATUS_OK);
-       return STATUS_ERROR;
    }
 
    if (auth_result == STATUS_OK)