deadlock in malloc

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> Assume we're we're in libc_malloc and the call to _int_malloc has failed
> because we're unable to sbrk more memory.
...
> Which seems like the right way to go, so I'd like to unify the 5
> implementations to have a similar structure.  ie, release the lock within
> the conditional just prior to calling arena_get2 and being safe WRT
> modification of ar_ptr->next.
>
>
> Thoughts or comments?

I haven't had time to look at this but I want to make time (that or
I'll get someone else to review it).

Could you please file a bugzilla issue with a dump of your thoughts so
we don't loose this?

Cheers,
Carlos.