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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 | a3e5a90e3fcb |
children | 1f14c6dd175d |
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Description: POSIX compatible vsprintf with automatic memory allocation and bounded output size. Comment: This module should not be used as a dependency from a test module, otherwise when this module occurs as a tests-related module, it will have side effects on the compilation of the 'vasnprintf' module, if that module occurs among the main modules in lib/. Files: m4/vasnprintf-posix.m4 m4/printf.m4 m4/math_h.m4 Depends-on: vasnprintf isnand-nolibm isnanl-nolibm frexp-nolibm frexpl-nolibm printf-frexp printf-frexpl signbit fpucw nocrash printf-safe multiarch configure.ac: gl_FUNC_VASNPRINTF_POSIX Makefile.am: Include: "vasnprintf.h" License: LGPL Maintainer: Bruno Haible