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authorWesley W. Terpstra <terpstra@debian.org>2011-07-12 14:38:22 +0300
committerRiku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>2011-07-12 14:38:22 +0300
commit95b33b2f4f0293068d1a42b3ab5badcc6333c6ba (patch)
tree3f4ef76d5a8b48ef6f0997ec826d92d92918232b /check-qdict.c
parente6e5bd2dd1868b5a244bc572422f585cef579ffb (diff)
mips: rlimit incorrectly converts values
Byte swap was applied in the wrong order with testing for RLIM_INFINITY. On mips bigendian from an amd64 system this results in infinity being misinterpretted as 2^31-1. This is a serious bug because it causes setrlimit stack size to kill all child processes. This means (for example) that 'make' can run no children. The mechanism of failure: 1. parent sets stack size rlimit to 'infinity' 2. qemu screws this value up 3. child process fetches stack size as a large (but non-infinite) value 4. qemu tries to allocate stack before execution 5. stack allocation fails (too big) and child process dies Signed-off-by: Wesley W. Terpstra <terpstra@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
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