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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 16:11:47 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 16:11:47 +0000 |
commit | 758f820bcc0f68aeebac1717e537ca13a320b909 (patch) | |
tree | 48111ece75cf4f98316848b37a7e26356e00669e /tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh | |
parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 9.1.upstream/9.1upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh b/tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..480f6b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# Detect printf(3) failure even when it doesn't set stream error indicator + +# Copyright (C) 2007-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. + +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. + +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +prog=printf + +. "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src +print_ver_ printf + +vm=$(get_min_ulimit_v_ env $prog %20f 0) \ + || skip_ "this shell lacks ulimit support" + +# Up to coreutils-6.9, "printf %.Nf 0" would encounter an ENOMEM internal +# error from glibc's printf(3) function whenever N was large relative to +# the size of available memory. As of Oct 2007, that internal stream- +# related failure was not reflected (for any libc I know of) in the usual +# stream error indicator that is tested by ferror. The result was that +# while the printf command obviously failed (generated no output), +# it mistakenly exited successfully (exit status of 0). + +# Testing it is tricky, because there is so much variance +# in quality for this corner of printf(3) implementations. +# Most implementations do attempt to allocate N bytes of storage. +# Using the maximum value for N (2^31-1) causes glibc-2.7 to try to +# allocate almost 2^64 bytes, while freeBSD 6.1's implementation +# correctly outputs almost 2GB worth of 0's, which takes too long. +# We want to test implementations that allocate N bytes, but without +# triggering the above extremes. + +# Some other versions of glibc-2.7 have a snprintf function that segfaults +# when an internal (technically unnecessary!) memory allocation fails. + +# The compromise is to limit virtual memory to something reasonable, +# and to make an N-byte-allocating-printf require more than that, thus +# triggering the printf(3) misbehavior -- which, btw, is required by ISO C99. + +mkfifo_or_skip_ fifo +trap_sigpipe_or_skip_ + +# Disable MALLOC_PERTURB_, to avoid triggering this bug +# https://bugs.debian.org/481543#77 +export MALLOC_PERTURB_=0 + +# Terminate any background process +cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; } + +head -c 10 fifo > out & pid=$! + +# Trigger large mem allocation failure +( trap '' PIPE && ulimit -v $vm && env $prog %20000000f 0 2>err-msg > fifo ) +exit=$? + +# Map this longer, and rarer, diagnostic to the common one. +# printf: cannot perform formatted output: Cannot allocate memory" +sed 's/cannot perform .*/write error/' err-msg > k && mv k err-msg +err_msg=$(tr '\n' : < err-msg) + +# By some bug, on Solaris 11 (5.11 snv_86), err_msg ends up +# containing '1> fifo:printf: write error:'. Recognize that, too. + +case $err_msg in + "$prog: write error:"*) diagnostic=y ;; + "1> fifo:$prog: write error:") diagnostic=y ;; + '') diagnostic=n ;; + *) diagnostic=unexpected ;; +esac +n_out=$(wc -c < out) + +case $n_out:$diagnostic:$exit in + 10:n:0) ;; # ok, succeeds w/no diagnostic: FreeBSD 6.1 + 10:y:1) ;; # ok, fails with EPIPE diagnostic: musl libc + 0:y:1) ;; # ok, glibc-2.8 and newer, when printf(3) fails with ENOMEM + + # With MALLOC_PERTURB_=0, this no longer happens. + # *:139) # segfault; known bug at least in debian unstable's libc6 2.7-11 + # echo 1>&2 "$0: bug in snprintf causes low-mem use of printf to segfault" + # fail=77;; + + # 10:y) ;; # Fail: doesn't happen: nobody succeeds with a diagnostic + # 0:n) ;; # Fail pre-patch: no output, no diag + *) fail=1;; +esac + +Exit $fail |