[PATCH] Improve check against integer wraparound in hcreate_r [BZ #18240]

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Mon Feb 1 18:27:00 GMT 2016


Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> writes:

> (i did not notice earlier as in my normal test
> environment memory overcommit is off so the
> test case just fails with ENOMEM, i'm not sure
> how to handle such tests where huge memory is
> allocated)

Perhaps the test should set a VM limit so that the allocation fails even
if you have huge amount of available memory.  Performing the allocation
isn't the main point of the test.

Andreas.

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