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authorTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-01-06 17:57:23 +0000
committerTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-01-06 17:57:23 +0000
commit87b4fe26d6b0c61b0bc324cc7b8754175f2f2fdc (patch)
tree6b73e4a7706eb5937e8d23ebb76a383307495b43 /lib/libc
parenta622e34da0d49c93bdc43834720f5692e1d398b6 (diff)
Long ago, malloc internally had two kinds of failures, warnings and errors.
The 'A' option elevated warnings to errors, and has been the default for some time. Then warnings were effectively eliminated in favor of everything being an error, but then the 'a' flag turned real errors into warnings! Remove the 'a' option entirely. You shouldn't have used it anyway. ok tb tdeval
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.39
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c12
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index 27645b5a805..6cb6011ae4b 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.91 2015/09/14 13:08:01 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.92 2016/01/06 17:57:22 tedu Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 14 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 6 2016 $
.Dt MALLOC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -345,10 +345,7 @@ or
detect an error condition,
a message will be printed to file descriptor
2 (not using stdio).
-Errors will result in the process being aborted,
-unless the
-.Cm a
-option has been specified.
+Errors will result in the process being aborted.
.Pp
Here is a brief description of the error messages and what they mean:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
index 7d64be89a9e..23e076bdafe 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: malloc.c,v 1.179 2015/12/30 06:04:39 tedu Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: malloc.c,v 1.180 2016/01/06 17:57:22 tedu Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, 2011 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
* Copyright (c) 2012 Matthew Dempsky <matthew@openbsd.org>
@@ -177,7 +177,6 @@ struct chunk_info {
struct malloc_readonly {
struct dir_info *malloc_pool; /* Main bookkeeping information */
- int malloc_abort; /* abort() on error */
int malloc_freenow; /* Free quickly - disable chunk rnd */
int malloc_freeunmap; /* mprotect free pages PROT_NONE? */
int malloc_hint; /* call madvice on free pages? */
@@ -280,8 +279,8 @@ wrterror(char *msg, void *p)
#endif /* MALLOC_STATS */
errno = saved_errno;
- if (mopts.malloc_abort)
- abort();
+
+ abort();
}
static void
@@ -485,7 +484,6 @@ omalloc_init(struct dir_info **dp)
/*
* Default options
*/
- mopts.malloc_abort = 1;
mopts.malloc_junk = 1;
mopts.malloc_move = 1;
mopts.malloc_cache = MALLOC_DEFAULT_CACHE;
@@ -523,10 +521,8 @@ omalloc_init(struct dir_info **dp)
mopts.malloc_cache >>= 1;
break;
case 'a':
- mopts.malloc_abort = 0;
- break;
case 'A':
- mopts.malloc_abort = 1;
+ /* ignored */
break;
case 'c':
mopts.malloc_canaries = 0;