[Bro-Dev] [Bro-Commits] [git/bro] fastpath: Change X509 extension value parsing to not abort on malloc failures. (385438d)

[Bernhard Amann]

On May 1, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Siwek, Jonathan Luke <jsiwek at illinois.edu> wrote:

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>> +	// TODO: see about using regular malloc here, there were unknown problems
>> +	// using anything other than OPENSSL_malloc that need investigation.
>> +	char* buffer = (char*) OPENSSL_malloc(length);
> 
> Bernhard, do you know any more details of what was wrong w/ regular malloc() here?  I think it makes sense to get away from using OpenSSL’s malloc wrapper if it’s possible.
> 
> If I change it, running the test suites on OS X don’t show a problem.  Is triggering the problem more subtle than the test suites will pick up on?

Nah, it was fairly obvious. I might just have done something else wrong and blamed it on that - if everything still works, that should be good enough :)

Bernhard