#!/bin/sh # Ensure that cut does not allocate mem for large ranges # Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ cut require_ulimit_v_ getlimits_ # Ensure we can cut up to our sentinel value. # This is currently SIZE_MAX, but could be raised to UINTMAX_MAX # if we didn't allocate memory for each line as a unit. CUT_MAX=$(expr $SIZE_MAX - 1) # From coreutils-8.10 through 8.20, this would make cut try to allocate # a 256MiB bit vector. With a 20MB limit on VM, the following would fail. (ulimit -v 20000; : | cut -b$CUT_MAX- > err 2>&1) || fail=1 # Up to and including coreutils-8.21, cut would allocate possibly needed # memory upfront. Subsequently extra memory is no longer needed. (ulimit -v 20000; : | cut -b1-$CUT_MAX >> err 2>&1) || fail=1 # Explicitly disallow values above CUT_MAX (ulimit -v 20000; : | cut -b$SIZE_MAX 2>/dev/null) && fail=1 (ulimit -v 20000; : | cut -b$SIZE_OFLOW 2>/dev/null) && fail=1 compare /dev/null err || fail=1 Exit $fail