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document "chunk canary corrupted" error

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otto 8 years ago
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\" .\"
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.95 2016/04/03 09:31:45 otto Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.96 2016/10/07 12:59:04 otto Exp $
.\" .\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: April 3 2016 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: October 7 2016 $
.Dt MALLOC 3 .Dt MALLOC 3
.Os .Os
.Sh NAME .Sh NAME
@ -377,6 +377,11 @@ The pointer passed to
or or
.Fn reallocarray .Fn reallocarray
has been modified. has been modified.
.It Dq chunk canary corrupted 0xhhhhllll
A byte after the requested size has been overwritten,
indicating a heap overflow.
The high word is the length of the chunk,
the low word is the offset at which corruption was detected.
.It Dq recursive call .It Dq recursive call
An attempt was made to call recursively into these functions, i.e., from a An attempt was made to call recursively into these functions, i.e., from a
signal handler. signal handler.


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