> -----Original Message----- > From: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:47 AM > To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemi...@mellanox.com>; Anatoly Burakov > <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> > Cc: Asaf Penso <as...@mellanox.com>; dev <dev@dpdk.org>; dpdk stable > <sta...@dpdk.org> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] malloc: fix realloc padded element > size > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:50 PM Xueming Li <xuemi...@mellanox.com> > wrote: > > > > When resize a memory with next element, the original element size grows. > > If the orginal element has padding, the real inner element size didn't > > grow as well and this causes trailer verification failure when malloc > > debug enabled. > > I did not see this when running the malloc_autotest with debug enabled. > What is missing for me to catch it? > Yes, it happens rarely, depends on memory fragment. I only caught this in middle of a long test.
> > Just a bit chilly to apply this series. > The first patch seems an optimisation. > The second one seems more interesting if we fix the debug mode, but I > suppose we can live without them in 19.11. Few people enable memory debug option, they are there for years. > > > -- > David Marchand
