Patch from rubiate: disable openbsd memory protections in test-memwipe

Test-memwipe is *supposed* to invoke undefined behavior, alas.

Closes 20066.

diff --git a/changes/ticket20066 b/changes/ticket20066
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..970793d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/ticket20066
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+  o Minor features (testing):
+    - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when testing memwipe().
+      The test deliberately invokes undefined behaviour which the
+      protections interfere with. Patch from "rubiate". Closes ticket
+      20066.

diff --git a/src/test/test-memwipe.c b/src/test/test-memwipe.c
index 2d40283fb112b9d28234610d848da76d2d124d25..8187c4546104a41816b8fddc2377162b566cfd94 100644 (file)
--- a/src/test/test-memwipe.c
+++ b/src/test/test-memwipe.c
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ const char *s = NULL;
     sum += (unsigned char)buf[i];                                       \
   }
 
+#ifdef __OpenBSD__
+/* Disable some of OpenBSD's malloc protections for this test. This helps
+ * us do bad things, such as access freed buffers, without crashing. */
+const char *malloc_options="sufjj";
+#endif
+
 static unsigned
 fill_a_buffer_memset(void)
 {