From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 09:54:40 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: tests: split: reject excessively large suffix lengths
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tests: split: reject excessively large suffix lengths

* tests/split/suffix-length.sh: Ensure that a pathologically large
-a/--suffix-length value fails gracefully rather than crashing or
hanging.
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/12609
Closes https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/pull/282
---

diff --git a/tests/split/suffix-length.sh b/tests/split/suffix-length.sh
index 84fce04a26..0b2bf3894a 100755
--- a/tests/split/suffix-length.sh
+++ b/tests/split/suffix-length.sh
@@ -73,4 +73,13 @@ rm -f x*
 returns_ 1 split -a2 -n1000 < /dev/null || fail=1
 test -f xaa && fail=1
 
+# Ensure that an excessively large suffix length fails gracefully,
+# rather than crashing or hanging.
+rm -f x*
+vm=$(get_min_ulimit_v_ split -a 1 /dev/null)
+if test -n "$vm"; then
+  (ulimit -v $(($vm+6000)) && returns_ 1 split -a 66542562175252 in) || fail=1
+  test -f xaa && fail=1
+fi
+
 Exit $fail