On 29.08.2006 [13:13:51 -0500], Adam Litke wrote: > One of our testers has been hitting the following problem: > > When running an application linked against a libhugetlbfs-provided > linker script, LD_PRELOAD=libhugetlbfs.so is accidentally set. The > library incorrectly tries to perform remapping, which results in an > application segfault. > > We must add extra checking to handle this case since our normal method > of disabling segment remapping won't work in this scenario. This > patch checks for "libhugetlbfs" in the LD_PRELOAD environment > variable. If found, remapping is disabled and the user is warned. > With the addition of an additional environment check, I felt it was > time to move them into a separate function.
While it would be nice if weren't dependent upon the name "libhugetlbfs" (perhaps it could be a macro at the top, or something?), this looks reasonable. > Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, Nish -- Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
