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test/secmemtest.c: clarify limitations for huge secure memory arena test.

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Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
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Andy Polyakov 2017-05-21 11:16:34 +02:00
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@ -82,18 +82,23 @@ static int test_sec_mem(void)
* *
* CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init((size_t)1<<34, (size_t)1<<4); * CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init((size_t)1<<34, (size_t)1<<4);
* *
* Which really only works on 64-bit systems, and even then the * Which really only works on 64-bit systems, since it took 16 GB
* code attempts to allocate 16 GB secure memory arena. Linux * secure memory arena to trigger the problem. It naturally takes
* can deal with this better than other Unixy OS's (e.g. MacOS) * corresponding amount of available virtual and physical memory
* but we don't want to push the system too hard during a unit * for test to be feasible/representative. Since we can't assume
* test. In addition, trying to allocate 16GB will cause the * that every system is equipped with that much memory, the test
* mlock() call to fail, so that was at least changed to no * remains disabled. If the reader of this comment really wants
* longer be an assert. If the reader of this comment really * to make sure that infinite loop is fixed, they can enable the
* wants to make sure that infinite loop is fixed, they can * code below.
* enable the code below.
*/ */
# if 0 # if 0
/* This test should only be run under Linux... runner beware */ /*-
* On Linux and BSD this test has a chance to complete in minimal
* time and with minimum side effects, because mlock is likely to
* fail because of RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, which is customarily [much]
* smaller than 16GB. In other words Linux and BSD users can be
* limited by virtual space alone...
*/
if (sizeof(size_t) > 4) { if (sizeof(size_t) > 4) {
TEST_info("Possible infinite loop: 1<<31 limit"); TEST_info("Possible infinite loop: 1<<31 limit");
if (TEST_true(CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init((size_t)1<<34, (size_t)1<<4) != 0)) if (TEST_true(CRYPTO_secure_malloc_init((size_t)1<<34, (size_t)1<<4) != 0))