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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2009-05-12 15:10:23 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2009-05-12 15:10:23 -0400
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Add sentinel values to the end of memarea chunks.
This might detect some possible causes of bug 930, and will at least make sure we aren't doing some dumb memory-corruption stuff with the heap and router-parsing.
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@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-??-??
- New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the source
files Tor was built with.
- The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
+ - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
+ to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
+ help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
o Deprecated and removed features:
- The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"