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| author | vangyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-10-02 14:24:39 +0000 |
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| committer | vangyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-10-02 14:24:39 +0000 |
| commit | 7b3b15b30002adb4bfb1e6836e4a76225fff3d6f (patch) | |
| tree | 06532d6f64f703c508bde76e80e395cce093ca89 /sbin/dmesg | |
| parent | 65381bf93d359744f5273394ccc73cf9fe5b55d8 (diff) | |
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MFC r281787
dmesg: accommodate message buffer growth between the sysctl calls
Allocate 12.5% extra space to avoid ENOMEM when the message buffer
is growing steadily.
Reported by: Steve Wahl <steve_wahl@dell.com> (and tested)
Sponsored by: Dell Inc.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/dmesg')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c b/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c index f0fcb81..75b926c 100644 --- a/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c +++ b/sbin/dmesg/dmesg.c @@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) */ if (sysctlbyname("kern.msgbuf", NULL, &buflen, NULL, 0) == -1) err(1, "sysctl kern.msgbuf"); + /* Allocate extra room for growth between the sysctl calls. */ + buflen += buflen/8; + /* Allocate more than sysctl sees, for room to append \n\0. */ if ((bp = malloc(buflen + 2)) == NULL) errx(1, "malloc failed"); if (sysctlbyname("kern.msgbuf", bp, &buflen, NULL, 0) == -1) |
