[PATCH] Cygwin: cygheap: fix fork error after heap has grown

David McFarland corngood@gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 02:35:17 GMT 2023


2f9b8ff0 introduced a problem where forks would sometimes fail with:

child_copy: cygheap read copy failed, 0x0..0x80044C750, done 0, windows pid 14032, Win32 error 299

When cygheap_max was > CYGHEAP_STORAGE_INITIAL, commit_size would be set to
allocsize(cygheap_max), which is an address, not a size.  VirtualAlloc would be
called to commit commit_size bytes, which would fail, and then child_copy would
be called with zero as the base address.
---
 winsup/cygwin/mm/cygheap.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/mm/cygheap.cc b/winsup/cygwin/mm/cygheap.cc
index 6a20c159a..d614fc7a9 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/mm/cygheap.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/mm/cygheap.cc
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ cygheap_fixup_in_child (bool execed)
   SIZE_T commit_size = CYGHEAP_STORAGE_INITIAL - CYGHEAP_STORAGE_LOW;
 
   if (child_proc_info->cygheap_max > (void *) CYGHEAP_STORAGE_INITIAL)
-    commit_size = allocsize (child_proc_info->cygheap_max);
+    commit_size = allocsize (child_proc_info->cygheap_max) - CYGHEAP_STORAGE_LOW;
   cygheap = (init_cygheap *) VirtualAlloc ((LPVOID) CYGHEAP_STORAGE_LOW,
 					   CYGHEAP_STORAGE_HIGH
 					   - CYGHEAP_STORAGE_LOW,
-- 
2.39.0.windows.2



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