Re: Crash when using hardened_malloc

[Tommy Nguyen]

On Sat, 2022-09-24 at 13:48 +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I can confirm when building from source that the fix works.

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