Hi,
at the cost of some speed, reduce the malloc cache size to 0 with
flag 'S'. This means that pages that become free will be unmapped asap.
This detects more use-after-free bugs. The slowdown is because of more
unmap/mmap calls.
ok?
-Otto
Index: malloc.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.138
diff -u -p -r1.138 malloc.c
--- malloc.c 20 Jun 2011 18:04:06 -0000 1.138
+++ malloc.c 12 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0000
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
#define MALLOC_MAXCACHE 256
#define MALLOC_DELAYED_CHUNKS 15 /* max of getrnibble() */
#define MALLOC_INITIAL_REGIONS 512
+#define MALLOC_DEFAULT_CACHE 64
+
/*
* When the P option is active, we move allocations between half a page
* and a whole page towards the end, subject to alignment constraints.
@@ -461,7 +463,7 @@ omalloc_init(struct dir_info **dp)
*/
mopts.malloc_abort = 1;
mopts.malloc_move = 1;
- mopts.malloc_cache = 64;
+ mopts.malloc_cache = MALLOC_DEFAULT_CACHE;
for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
switch (i) {
@@ -551,10 +553,12 @@ omalloc_init(struct dir_info **dp)
case 's':
mopts.malloc_freeprot = mopts.malloc_junk = 0;
mopts.malloc_guard = 0;
+ mopts.malloc_cache = MALLOC_DEFAULT_CACHE;
break;
case 'S':
mopts.malloc_freeprot = mopts.malloc_junk = 1;
mopts.malloc_guard = MALLOC_PAGESIZE;
+ mopts.malloc_cache = 0;
break;
case 'x':
mopts.malloc_xmalloc = 0;