Malloc failures check

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

Unfortunately, it is not a compile-time check...

I mean smth like
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/ab5c77b4766e0992751d86560193ca42b49cf316/include/openssl/e_os2.h#L198-L202
but not sure it is applicable to external functions...

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:42 PM Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:

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>    - It would be possible to implement a malloc failure feature in the
>    test suite that systematically runs a test many times, failing successive
>    malloc calls.
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> It’s there; look crypto/mem.c, shouldfail() and FAILTEST.
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> More detail, from off-list discusson:
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>     i=0
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>     while : ; do
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>            ((i++))
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>            export MALLOC_FAILURE_CHECKS=${i}@100 openssl foo etc…
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>            test -f core && echo crashed && exit 1
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>      done
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-- 
SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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