Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:18:29 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADSUP: malloc changeover Message-ID: <20060113201829.GA24887@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060113195319.GA17963@flame.pc> References: <1A89617A-5F0E-492E-8C21-10A4F679BCD2@freebsd.org> <14547.1137178334@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060113195319.GA17963@flame.pc>
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--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:53:19PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-01-13 19:52, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > >In message <1A89617A-5F0E-492E-8C21-10A4F679BCD2@freebsd.org>, Jason Eva= ns writes: > >> The most likely types of application bugs that this malloc > >> implementation will uncover are: > > > > And speaking from experience: You can do Jason a big favour by > > trying your app with Electric Fence or similar before yelling > > at him. >=20 > HEH! Definitely. I have built & run at least four versions > since January 11, two with DEBUG_FLAGS=3D'-g' for both userland and > kernel and two without. As Jason said, we should probably keep > looking for potential problems both in the new malloc() and the > programs that use it, but the fact that my laptop still runs > quite fine with several dozens of ports installed some time back > in December seems to imply there aren't any _really_ _nasty_ bugs > in malloc so far There are several ports that have build failures due to application bugs. I think I emailed some of the maintainers already, but there are more that are going to be (re-)exposed by some more recent changes than that patchset I was testing. Kris --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDyAsVWry0BWjoQKURApAVAJ9RwOufazuHZ4EKOc/As4vMrGu/vQCg0eAt RazlJAE+lxfUUot/wACe8l0= =d6+O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--
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