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authorOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-10-08 12:56:19 +0000
committerOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-10-08 12:56:19 +0000
commitf4404bb0e06cf4fba002c86f5860c8fed52a3661 (patch)
tree4f02435cd2f90b587cd64f262ab596368c01b47c /lib
parent6df44be959f24d9d2836a7c860231c2efdc774fb (diff)
make clear the length printed is the requested length
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.36
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index 7420a9c2076..701bb5484a0 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 1.97 2016/10/07 14:43:13 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.98 2016/10/08 12:56:18 otto Exp $
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 7 2016 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 8 2016 $
.Dt MALLOC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ has been modified.
.It Dq chunk canary corrupted 0xhhhhllll
A byte after the requested size has been overwritten,
indicating a heap overflow.
-The high word is the length of the chunk;
+The high word is the requested length of the chunk;
the low word is the offset at which corruption was detected.
.It Dq recursive call
An attempt was made to call recursively into these functions, i.e., from a