Re: SIGSEGV from jemalloc.c running ruby test suite

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:58:24AM +0200, rudolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When running ruby (ruby-lang.org) test suite, I am able to provoke a 
> segfault using one test [1] (it segfaults in about one in 10 tries). The 
> backtrace (attached) points to a jemalloc.c source code file.

Memory faults in any malloc implementation are mostly due to
bugs is the application (use after free, overwrite end/start
allocated buffer, etc).

        David

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