Re: How important is mcheck?

On 02/11/2014 06:04 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:

> I suppose we could have main call mcheck.  That seems only mildly more
> difficult.

I would make it completely unavailable.

> Florian> Then you'd be able to enable it regardless of Python threading
> Florian> support.
>
> The problem is that mcheck is written in a way that inherently not
> thread-safe.  This requires a fix in glibc.

I somewhat naively assumed that GDB uses the xmalloc function variants 
consistently, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  If it did, just 
hooking the x* functions would do the trick.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team