RCHECK bug in malloc
steve at miduet.UUCP
steve at miduet.UUCP
Tue Jul 15 04:17:32 AEST 1986
[Probably old hat, this, but anyway....]
A colleague of mine unearthed this bug in 4.2 malloc.c when it was
compiled with range checking (RCHECK) included. This manifested itself
by returning errors whenever 'realloc' was used. A diff follows.
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16a17,20
> /*
> * Modified By Tim Yates <yates at miduet.UUCP> to fix bug when using RCHECK
> */
>
263a268,278
> /* modified by Tim Yates <yates at miduet.UUCP> */
> /* correct the position of the magic number and the
> * real size of the block */
> #ifdef RCHECK
> {
> nbytes += sizeof(union overhead) + RSLOP;
> nbytes = (nbytes + 3) &~ 3;
> op->ov_size = nbytes - 1;
> *((u_int *)((caddr_t)op + nbytes - RSLOP)) = RMAGIC;
> }
> #endif RCHECK
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