[hobbit] BUG: Glibc 'free(): invalid next size' in bbcmd on FC5

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:33:37PM -0700, Japheth J.C. Cleaver wrote:
> 
> Running "bbcmd" after a clean install (default configuration, current 
> allinone patch) results in a glibc free() error. This is on Fedora 
> Core 5 with Glibc2.4-8. Running as "MALLOC_CHECK_=0 ./bbcmd" is a 
> temporary workaround.

Thanks, this appears to be a 1-byte miscalculation of a buffer needed
for one of the Hobbit environment variables. This patch should solve it.


Regards,
Henrik

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--- common/bbcmd.c	2006/07/09 15:15:52	1.20
+++ common/bbcmd.c	2006/08/05 20:38:29
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 		}
 		else strcpy(buf, "localhost");
 
-		evar = (char *)malloc(strlen(buf) + 12);
+		evar = (char *)malloc(strlen(buf) + 13);
 		sprintf(evar, "MACHINEDOTS=%s", buf);
 		putenv(evar);
 	}