Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 167921
Incomming sequence arguments only 4096 elements long
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:13 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: While tracking down what appears to be a memory trashing bug in out ORBit-using software, I noticed that the length of incomming sequences (of floats) had the value 4096 encoded in ORBitMemHow for _buffer, even though the _maximum/_length said (in our case) 8192 or 16777216. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ORBit2-2.12.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. No code, sorry 2. 3. Additional info: The value 4096 appears in ORBit_demarshal_value(), which in turn calls ORBit_realloc_tcval(). Shouldn't ORBit_realloc_tcval() update the ORBit_MemPrefix and ORBitMemHow information? It seems to me that otherwise, ORBit_free_T() would only call free_fn() on the first 4096 elements. Not that I think it's related to our memory trashing problems, but I though I sould report it anyway. I suspect it could lead to severe memory leaks if the elements were not plain basic types.
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