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| -rw-r--r-- | changes/ticket20066 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/test/test-memwipe.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/changes/ticket20066 b/changes/ticket20066 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..970793d4ee --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/ticket20066 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + o Minor features (testing): + - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when testing memwipe(). + The test deliberately invokes undefined behaviour which the + protections interfere with. Patch from "rubiate". Closes ticket + 20066. diff --git a/src/test/test-memwipe.c b/src/test/test-memwipe.c index 2d40283fb1..8187c45461 100644 --- a/src/test/test-memwipe.c +++ b/src/test/test-memwipe.c @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ const char *s = NULL; sum += (unsigned char)buf[i]; \ } +#ifdef __OpenBSD__ +/* Disable some of OpenBSD's malloc protections for this test. This helps + * us do bad things, such as access freed buffers, without crashing. */ +const char *malloc_options="sufjj"; +#endif + static unsigned fill_a_buffer_memset(void) { |