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From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: stdio self-synchronized destruction: does it need fixing?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:57:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121210225752.GI23126@port70.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121210180508.GA2313@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

* Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> [2012-12-10 13:05:09 -0500]:
> memory. The allocation of FILE structues is always performed by libc,
> and always happens via malloc with a small-size allocation, which
> means the memory is managed as part of the heap and never unmapped
> once it's mapped. Thus, as far as I can tell, the worst that can
> happen is a read-only access to memory no longer owned by the FILE,

at least write a comment there that the invalid read is known

(btw at some point someone may rewrite malloc so small allocations
can go to mmapped areas as well which may be reclaimed..)


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-10 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-10 18:05 Rich Felker
2012-12-10 22:57 ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2012-12-10 23:21   ` Rich Felker

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