On 18-Jul-18 10:44 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
DPDK malloc library allows broken programs to work because
the semantics of zmalloc and malloc are the same.
This patch changes to a more secure model which will catch
(and crash) programs that reuse memory already freed.
This supersedes earlier changes to zero memory on free and
avoid zeroing memory in zmalloc.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
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I would be a bit wary of introducing this change without prior
announcement. Currently, rte_malloc'd memory is semantically identical
to zmalloc'd memory, which means there may be code that relies on this
behavior, even though it's technically incorrect.
How about a deprecation notice, and do this in 18.11?
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Thanks,
Anatoly
