From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Glibc hackers <libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix infinite loop in malloc for really large sizes
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060824170642.GJ4556@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
Hi!
As the attached testcase shows, for really large allocations where
all of mmap, heap growth and new heap alloc fail malloc loops forever,
calling mmap with the given size.
2006-08-24 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
* malloc/malloc.c (sYSMALLOc): Avoid infinite loop if MMAP
keeps failing and heap growth or new heap creation isn't
successful either.
* malloc/tst-malloc.c (main): Add new test.
--- libc/malloc/malloc.c.jj 2006-08-22 09:04:53.000000000 +0200
+++ libc/malloc/malloc.c 2006-08-24 18:48:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -2860,6 +2860,7 @@ static Void_t* sYSMALLOc(nb, av) INTERNA
unsigned long sum; /* for updating stats */
size_t pagemask = mp_.pagesize - 1;
+ bool tried_mmap = false;
#if HAVE_MMAP
@@ -2883,6 +2884,7 @@ static Void_t* sYSMALLOc(nb, av) INTERNA
is no following chunk whose prev_size field could be used.
*/
size = (nb + SIZE_SZ + MALLOC_ALIGN_MASK + pagemask) & ~pagemask;
+ tried_mmap = true;
/* Don't try if size wraps around 0 */
if ((unsigned long)(size) > (unsigned long)(nb)) {
@@ -3006,7 +3008,7 @@ static Void_t* sYSMALLOc(nb, av) INTERNA
set_foot(old_top, (old_size + 2*SIZE_SZ));
}
}
- else
+ else if (!tried_mmap)
/* We can at least try to use to mmap memory. */
goto try_mmap;
--- libc/malloc/tst-malloc.c.jj 2001-07-06 06:55:35.000000000 +0200
+++ libc/malloc/tst-malloc.c 2006-08-24 18:59:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ merror (const char *msg)
int
main (void)
{
- void *p;
+ void *p, *q;
int save;
errno = 0;
@@ -64,5 +64,15 @@ main (void)
if (p != NULL)
merror ("realloc (p, 0) failed.");
+ p = malloc (513 * 1024);
+ if (p == NULL)
+ merror ("malloc (513K) failed.");
+
+ q = malloc (-512 * 1024);
+ if (q != NULL)
+ merror ("malloc (-512K) succeeded.");
+
+ free (p);
+
return errors != 0;
}
Jakub
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2006-08-24 17:07 Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2006-08-24 17:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
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