On 2020-07-13 14:47, Steve Dickson wrote:
or even that the library was compiled with the same malloc library. There are different malloc libraries other than glibc?
Not including the various libc implementations (dietlibc, klibc, uclibc) there are several specialized malloc libraries (dmalloc & jemalloc are the most common) that you can compile or link against. Usually since they replace malloc and friends everything works, but you can get into issues depending on order of linking and how you compile.
I recently put gssd though a few rounds of mallocfail, which allows you to progressive test every allocation point (during normal running) to ensure it's handled (instead of crashing). I've an updated patchset that fixes the event2 conversion to check for successful allocation and a couple other spots that crashed if the allocation failed.
I'm taking it a bit slower this time... kinda rushed the last patchset out the door since I was needed on another project. ;-)
Doug
