Richard Purdie writes:
Hi,
> Please just update that patch then rather than patching code that we've
> ready patched. Is this issue uclibc specific?
the usage of alloca is due me and killing a lot of malloc's in
the hot path of log handling. I am late to these patches
but my two cents would be
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 17:20 +0800, ChenQi wrote:
> The use of alloca() was introduced by an oe-specific patch from Khem Raj.
>
> The patch is
> meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/systemd-pam-fix-fallocate.patch.
> The upstream status of the above patch is as following.
> Upstream-Status: D
On 06/03/2014 05:20 PM, ChenQi wrote:
On 06/03/2014 05:06 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:42 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
The alloca() function allocates space in the stack frame of the caller,
so using alloca(new_size - old_size) would possibly crash the stack,
causing a segment fa
On 06/03/2014 05:06 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:42 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
The alloca() function allocates space in the stack frame of the caller,
so using alloca(new_size - old_size) would possibly crash the stack,
causing a segment fault error.
This patch fixes the above
On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 15:42 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
> The alloca() function allocates space in the stack frame of the caller,
> so using alloca(new_size - old_size) would possibly crash the stack,
> causing a segment fault error.
>
> This patch fixes the above problem by avoiding using this function
The alloca() function allocates space in the stack frame of the caller,
so using alloca(new_size - old_size) would possibly crash the stack,
causing a segment fault error.
This patch fixes the above problem by avoiding using this function in
journal-file.c.
[YOCTO #6201]
Signed-off-by: Chen Qi
