[PATCH] malloc: Remove corrupt arena flag
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Wed Aug 30 16:31:00 GMT 2017
On 08/30/2017 11:04 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> This is no longer needed because we now abort immediately
> once heap corruption is detected.
>
> 2017-08-30 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>
> * malloc/malloc.c (ARENA_CORRUPTION_BIT, arena_is_corrupt)
> (set_arena_corrupt): Remove definitions.
> (mtrim): Do not check for corrupt arena.
> * malloc/arena.c (arena_lock, reused_arena, arena_get_retry):
> Likewise.
Thanks for getting to the point where we can remove this.
Less code in the allocator is always better.
Patch looks good to me.
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Cheers,
Carlos.
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