[patch] Fix path length overflow in realpath (BZ#22786)

Paul Pluzhnikov ppluzhnikov@google.com
Tue Apr 10 14:54:00 GMT 2018


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:08 AM Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> Trying to allocate a block of INT_MAX+1 is rather likely to fail on a
> 32-bit platform.

But that's the only way to test for this overflow AFAICT.

Should I submit the fix without the test?
Should I submit the fix and the test, but disabled?
Should I change the test to pass if allocation fails?

Thanks,
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Paul Pluzhnikov



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