Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> You would be wise to avoid using heap storage once you're in the crash
> handler. From a security standpoint, if something has managed to
> damage the heap (which is not uncommon in a crash), you should not
> attempt to allocate or free heap memory.

As far as I can tell, the signal handler in the patch doesn't call
malloc() or free(), neither directly nor indirectly.

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