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Date:      Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:02:13 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Mikolaj Golub <trociny@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r230873 - head/lib/libkvm
Message-ID:  <201202011802.q11I2DXw098297@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: trociny
Date: Wed Feb  1 18:02:13 2012
New Revision: 230873
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/230873

Log:
  Try to avoid ambiguity when sysctl returns ENOMEM additionally
  checking the returned oldlen: when ENOMEM is due to the supplied
  buffer being too short the return oldlen is equal to buffer size.
  
  Without this additional check kvm_getprocs() gets stuck in loop if the
  returned ENOMEM was due the exceeded memorylocked limit. This is
  easily can be observed running `limits -l 1k top'.
  
  Submitted by:	Andrey Zonov <andrey zonov org>
  MFC after:	1 week

Modified:
  head/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c

Modified: head/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c	Wed Feb  1 17:56:38 2012	(r230872)
+++ head/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c	Wed Feb  1 18:02:13 2012	(r230873)
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ struct kinfo_proc *
 kvm_getprocs(kvm_t *kd, int op, int arg, int *cnt)
 {
 	int mib[4], st, nprocs;
-	size_t size;
+	size_t size, osize;
 	int temp_op;
 
 	if (kd->procbase != 0) {
@@ -524,10 +524,11 @@ kvm_getprocs(kvm_t *kd, int op, int arg,
 			    _kvm_realloc(kd, kd->procbase, size);
 			if (kd->procbase == 0)
 				return (0);
+			osize = size;
 			st = sysctl(mib, temp_op == KERN_PROC_ALL ||
 			    temp_op == KERN_PROC_PROC ? 3 : 4,
 			    kd->procbase, &size, NULL, 0);
-		} while (st == -1 && errno == ENOMEM);
+		} while (st == -1 && errno == ENOMEM && size == osize);
 		if (st == -1) {
 			_kvm_syserr(kd, kd->program, "kvm_getprocs");
 			return (0);



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