On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:57:28 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> Silly me. To make it more obvious whatz I really meant was:
> ---- snip ----
> if (buf->size - buf->pos < len + 1) {
> while (buf->size - buf->pos < len + 1)
> buf->size += 128;
> buf->p = realloc(buf->p, buf->size);
> }
> ---- snip ----
Yes, this is probably better. New version of the patch follows.
---->8----
I got SIGABRT in modpost when compiling a module really deeply nested in
a filesystem (path > 100 chars):
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST
> *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size: 0x0809f588 ***
> [...]
This patch fixes that problem.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <[email protected]>
--- linux-2.6.16-rc6.orig/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc6/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -553,7 +553,8 @@ void __attribute__((format(printf, 2, 3)
va_start(ap, fmt);
len = vsnprintf(tmp, SZ, fmt, ap);
if (buf->size - buf->pos < len + 1) {
- buf->size += 128;
+ while (buf->size - buf->pos < len + 1)
+ buf->size += 128;
buf->p = realloc(buf->p, buf->size);
}
strncpy(buf->p + buf->pos, tmp, len + 1);
--
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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