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From: 张忠山 <zzs213@126.com>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Why sbrk clear the increased memory region
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 11:13:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2890d42-bc87-3c65-4be4-6a2c748b9ddb@126.com> (raw)

Recently, I'm using barebox in a deep embedded project, and need some funtctions
in libc/libm, So I linked barebox with newlib

But whenever newlib call sbrk with negtive `increment`, barebox crash.

The reason is sbrk clean memory region using `increment`.

Why sbrk must clear the increased memory region? 

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From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=BC=A0=E5=BF=A0=E5=B1=B1?= <zzs213@126.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 11:01:33 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] only clear memory when increasing head size
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Signed-off-by: 张忠山 <zzs213@126.com>
---
 common/memory.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/memory.c b/common/memory.c
index 8f0b59891..0a8700d28 100644
--- a/common/memory.c
+++ b/common/memory.c
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ void *sbrk(ptrdiff_t increment)
 	void *old = sbrk_no_zero(increment);
 
 	/* Only clear increment, if valid address was returned */
-	if (old != NULL)
+	if ((old != NULL) && (increment > 0))
 		memset(old, 0, increment);
 
 	return old;
-- 
2.21.0

-- 
Best Regards,
zzs


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2019-04-22  3:13 张忠山 [this message]
2019-04-23  9:49 ` Sascha Hauer

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