[parisc-linux] Problem with malloc(3)/sbrk(2)/brk(2)/something

[David Huggins-Daines]

Hi,

This is a follow-up to my footnote about not being able to run the
'config.guess' shell script with ash (and some other stuff) on our
userland.  Basically I've found a minimal testcase for the problem,
which is that it's not possible to malloc() across a page boundary.

Beware that since we don't have a real page fault handler, this
program will crash your machine.  (Press TOC, and we'll take it from
there :-)

If you turn on debugging assertions in the malloc code you'll see that
it triggers this assertion:

  /* We always land on a page boundary */
  assert(((unsigned long)((char*)top(ar_ptr) + top_size) & (pagesz-1)) == 0);

I don't see sbrk() or brk() failing, so I'm not exactly sure why this
happens.  I suspect they are returning bogus values in this case.  If
someone knows that would be great although I expect to find the
problem soon (I may try to get strace going, since it will be very
useful for other similar problems).

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	/* get the first address */
	char *foo = malloc(16);

	/* now try to break a page boundary */
	char *target = (char *) ((unsigned long) (foo + 4095) & ~4095);

	size_t nbytes = target - foo;
	foo = malloc(nbytes);
	return 0;
}

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