Re: RFC: tunables failure indications...

[Carlos O'Donell <codonell at redhat dot com>]

On 12/13/19 3:21 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> "Carlos O'Donell" <codonell@redhat.com> writes:
>> Almost. _dl_fatal_printf is noreturn and calls _exit (127).
> 
> Done.
> 
> From b50d6a577bf2f118923ce0e1b159c4d659815405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 13:36:58 -0500
> Subject: tunables: report sbrk() failure
> 

LGTM for master if you proved this works by using gdb to set out to void
and confirmed it exits with the right error code and exits via _exit
(had a breakpoint on _exit and it triggers without showing exit on the
call chain).

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>

> diff --git a/elf/dl-tunables.c b/elf/dl-tunables.c
> index e625ac1a7d..f0d7d42770 100644
> --- a/elf/dl-tunables.c
> +++ b/elf/dl-tunables.c
> @@ -45,12 +45,11 @@ tunables_strdup (const char *in)
>    while (in[i++] != '\0');
>    char *out = __sbrk (i);
>  
> -  /* FIXME: In reality if the allocation fails, __sbrk will crash attempting to
> -     set the thread-local errno since the TCB has not yet been set up.  This
> -     needs to be fixed with an __sbrk implementation that does not set
> -     errno.  */
> +  /* For most of the tunables code, we ignore user errors.  However,
> +     this is a system error - and running out of memory at program
> +     startup should be reported, so we do.  */
>    if (out == (void *)-1)
> -    return NULL;
> +    _dl_fatal_printf ("sbrk() failure while processing tunables\n");
>  
>    i--;
>  
> 


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Cheers,
Carlos.