pthread_setaffinity (Linux variant): Rewrite to use VLA instead of alloca

extend_alloca was used to emulate VLA deallocation.  The new version
also handles the res == 0 corner case more explicitly, by returning 0
instead of the (potentially undefined, but usually zero) system call
error.

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c1b91061ba..5686701994 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2015-03-23  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
 
+	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_setaffinity.c
+	(__determine_cpumask_size): Replace extend_alloca with a
+	variable-length array.  Do not treat res == 0 as an error.
+
+2015-03-23  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
+
 	[BZ #18100]
 	* posix/wordexp.c (eval_expr_multdiv): Check for division by zero
 	and integer overflow.
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_setaffinity.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_setaffinity.c
index 37997e9688..e891818e8b 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_setaffinity.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_setaffinity.c
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
-#include <alloca.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <pthreadP.h>
 #include <sysdep.h>
@@ -27,26 +26,30 @@
 size_t __kernel_cpumask_size attribute_hidden;
 
 
-/* Determine the current affinity.  As a side affect we learn
-   about the size of the cpumask_t in the kernel.  */
+/* Determine the size of cpumask_t in the kernel.  */
 int
 __determine_cpumask_size (pid_t tid)
 {
-  INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
+  size_t psize;
   int res;
 
-  size_t psize = 128;
-  void *p = alloca (psize);
-
-  while (res = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (sched_getaffinity, err, 3, tid, psize, p),
-	 INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (res, err)
-	 && INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (res, err) == EINVAL)
-    p = extend_alloca (p, psize, 2 * psize);
-
-  if (res == 0 || INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (res, err))
-    return INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (res, err);
+  for (psize = 128; ; psize *= 2)
+    {
+      char buf[psize];
+      INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
+
+      res = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (sched_getaffinity, err, 3, tid, psize, buf);
+      if (INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (res, err))
+	{
+	  if (INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (res, err) != EINVAL)
+	    return INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (res, err);
+	}
+      else
+	break;
+    }
 
-  __kernel_cpumask_size = res;
+  if (res != 0)
+    __kernel_cpumask_size = res;
 
   return 0;
 }