Hi Harald, This patch is verging on 'obvious', ..... once one sees it :-)
Yes, it's good for mainline and all active branches, when available. Thanks Paul PS The fall-out pr114874 is so peculiar that I am dropping everything to find the source. On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 at 19:39, Harald Anlauf <anl...@gmx.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > the attached patch fixes issues with assignments of unlimited polymorphic > entities that were found with the help of valgrind or asan, see PR. > Looking > further into it, it turns out that allocation sizes as well as array spans > could be set incorrectly, leading to wrong results or heap corruption. > > The fix is rather straightforward: take into the _len of unlimited > polymorphic entities when it is non-zero to get the correct allocation > sizes and array spans. > > The patch has been tested by the reporter, see PR. > > Regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. OK for 15-mainline? > > I would like to backport this to active branches where appropriate, > starting with 14 after it reopens after release. Is this OK? > > Thanks, > Harald > >