Author: vangyzen Date: Fri Oct 2 14:24:39 2015 New Revision: 288498 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/288498
Log: MFC r281787 dmesg: accommodate message buffer growth between the sysctl calls Allocate 12.5% extra space to avoid ENOMEM when the message buffer is growing steadily. Reported by: Steve Wahl <steve_w...@dell.com> (and tested) Sponsored by: Dell Inc. Modified: stable/10/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c Directory Properties: stable/10/ (props changed) Modified: stable/10/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c ============================================================================== --- stable/10/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c Fri Oct 2 14:21:07 2015 (r288497) +++ stable/10/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c Fri Oct 2 14:24:39 2015 (r288498) @@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) */ if (sysctlbyname("kern.msgbuf", NULL, &buflen, NULL, 0) == -1) err(1, "sysctl kern.msgbuf"); + /* Allocate extra room for growth between the sysctl calls. */ + buflen += buflen/8; + /* Allocate more than sysctl sees, for room to append \n\0. */ if ((bp = malloc(buflen + 2)) == NULL) errx(1, "malloc failed"); if (sysctlbyname("kern.msgbuf", bp, &buflen, NULL, 0) == -1) _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"