Re: Crash when using hardened_malloc

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 01:39:47AM +0000, Tommy Nguyen wrote:
> I am using texinfo-6.8-4.fc37.
> 
> Hardened malloc[1] is a security focused malloc implementation.
> According to them, crashes are usually bugs in the application because
> they are more strict than the glibc malloc. When running info -a arg,
> this occurs:
> 
> fatal allocator error: canary corrupted
> 
> Here is the backtrace:

Thanks for the report.  I reproduced the error and found the cause with
Valgrind straight away.

I tried to fix it in commit 436f54d58a.  Please let me know if there
are any further problems.