Filename buffers too small after fix for 6938627
Andreas Kohn
andreas.kohn at fredhopper.com
Sun Apr 18 02:44:45 PDT 2010
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 19:30 +1000, David Holmes wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> I've filed 6944822 in our internal bug system for this.
Thank you!
--
Andreas
>
> Regards,
> David Holmes
>
> Andreas Kohn said the following on 04/18/10 18:26:
> > On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 20:57 +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> while reading a bit the hotspot sources I noticed a potential issue with
> >> the fix for 6938627 (Make temporary directory use property
> >> java.io.tmpdir when specified) in some places.
> >>
> >> Before the fix the callers of get_temp_directory() could hardcode the
> >> size of the filename buffer to a small number, but now that
> >> get_temp_directory() returns a value settable by the user this looks a
> >> bit dangerous.
> >>
> >> In particular:
> >> attachListener_linux.cpp:AttachListener::is_init_trigger()
> >> attachListener_solaris.cpp:AttachListener::is_init_trigger()
> >> both use a 128 byte buffer
> >>
> >> os_linux.cpp:linux_wrap_code()
> >> uses a 40 byte buffer.
> >
> >
> > Should I open a bug for this one?
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Andreas
> >
> >
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