Before this change, the while loop in reused_arena which avoids
returning a corrupt arena would never execute its body if the selected
arena were not corrupt. As a result, result == begin after the loop,
and the function returns NULL, triggering fallback to mmap.
+2016-06-21 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
+
+ [BZ #20284]
+ * malloc/arena.c (reused_arena): Do not return NULL if we start
+ out with a non-corrupted arena.
+
2016-06-21 Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
* misc/Makefile (tests): Add tst-preadvwritev and tst-preadvwritev64.
{
result = result->next;
if (result == begin)
- break;
+ /* We looped around the arena list. We could not find any
+ arena that was either not corrupted or not the one we
+ wanted to avoid. */
+ return NULL;
}
- /* We could not find any arena that was either not corrupted or not the one
- we wanted to avoid. */
- if (result == begin || result == avoid_arena)
- return NULL;
-
/* No arena available without contention. Wait for the next in line. */
LIBC_PROBE (memory_arena_reuse_wait, 3, &result->mutex, result, avoid_arena);
(void) mutex_lock (&result->mutex);