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regex: avoid glibc deadlock during configure
glibc has a known bug where certain corruptions of the heap can
cause malloc to default to printing a debug message that includes
a backtrace, but the act of getting the backtrace uses dlopen
which in turn calls into malloc, causing a recursive lock ending
in deadlock. Thus, when configure is probing for a known glibc
heap corruption bug, the overall configure would hang.
The solution suggested by glibc developers is to force malloc
to quit printing debug messages, which avoids recursive malloc.
* m4/regex.m4 (gl_REGEX): Avoid recursive malloc deadlock when
glibc bug 15078 in turn triggers bug 16159.
Reported by Michal Privoznik.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> |
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date | Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:34:13 -0700 |
parents | c741bc27922a |
children | 344018b6e5d7 |
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/* xgetcwd.c -- return current directory with unlimited length Copyright (C) 2001, 2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2009-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ /* Written by Jim Meyering. */ #include <config.h> #include "xgetcwd.h" #include <errno.h> #include <unistd.h> #include "xalloc.h" /* Return the current directory, newly allocated. Upon an out-of-memory error, call xalloc_die. Upon any other type of error, return NULL. */ char * xgetcwd (void) { char *cwd = getcwd (NULL, 0); if (! cwd && errno == ENOMEM) xalloc_die (); return cwd; }