diff options
| author | Wesley W. Terpstra <terpstra@debian.org> | 2011-07-12 14:38:22 +0300 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> | 2011-07-12 14:38:22 +0300 |
| commit | 95b33b2f4f0293068d1a42b3ab5badcc6333c6ba (patch) | |
| tree | 3f4ef76d5a8b48ef6f0997ec826d92d92918232b /scripts/qapi-commands.py | |
| parent | e6e5bd2dd1868b5a244bc572422f585cef579ffb (diff) | |
| download | focaccia-qemu-95b33b2f4f0293068d1a42b3ab5badcc6333c6ba.tar.gz focaccia-qemu-95b33b2f4f0293068d1a42b3ab5badcc6333c6ba.zip | |
mips: rlimit incorrectly converts values
Byte swap was applied in the wrong order with testing for RLIM_INFINITY. On mips bigendian from an amd64 system this results in infinity being misinterpretted as 2^31-1. This is a serious bug because it causes setrlimit stack size to kill all child processes. This means (for example) that 'make' can run no children. The mechanism of failure: 1. parent sets stack size rlimit to 'infinity' 2. qemu screws this value up 3. child process fetches stack size as a large (but non-infinite) value 4. qemu tries to allocate stack before execution 5. stack allocation fails (too big) and child process dies Signed-off-by: Wesley W. Terpstra <terpstra@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/qapi-commands.py')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions