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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:09:23 -0600
From: "jfoug" <jfoug@....net>
To: <john-dev@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: .bss size in -jumbo
>From: magnum [mailto:john.magnum@...hmail.com]
>
>2011-11-28 02:07, Solar Designer wrote:
>> magnum, Jim -
>>
>> .bss in 1.7.8-jumbo-8 grew to 140 MB in a 64-bit build with OpenMP:
>
>> I think at least top 5 of these (or maybe 7 or 9) should be changed to
>> allocate their memory dynamically
>
>Nine of the worst offenders are fixed in patch 0019. I did the ones I
>was guilty of :)
As was found yesterday, when I had MD5 core, we need to memset to 0, the
dyna-allocs of these buffers, to null's. This keeps the change equal to the
original static buffer in the .bss, which the runtime environ would memset
to zero upon program start. I am not saying these would core, but if we do
null the string data out, then there should be no latent bug, or worse yet,
a bug that only seems to impact one system (like I found).
Jim.
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