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commitce9b512cccae86cb381ef6bcf8e554a364f88aa1[log] [tgz]
authorDavid Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>Tue Mar 17 10:18:30 2015 -0400
committerDavid Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>Tue Mar 17 17:27:42 2015 +0000
tree95c136a7a6a5e1f9233180917b0b1a371f04f49e
parent00c73f5c6e4b80a24eb19218c006c8a3f08e1ed8 [diff]
runtime: copy env strings on startup

Some versions of libc, in this case Android's bionic, point environ
directly at the envp memory.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/libc/bionic/libc_init_common.cpp#104

The Go runtime does something surprisingly similar, building the
runtime's envs []string using gostringnocopy. Both libc and the Go
runtime reusing memory interacts badly. When syscall.Setenv uses cgo
to call setenv(3), C modifies the underlying memory of a Go string.

This manifests on android/arm. With GOROOT=/data/local/tmp, a
runtime test calls syscall.Setenv("/os"), resulting in
runtime.GOROOT()=="/os\x00a/local/tmp/goroot".

Avoid this by copying environment string memory into Go.

Covered by runtime.TestFixedGOROOT on android/arm.

Change-Id: Id0cf9553969f587addd462f2239dafca1cf371fa
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/7663
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
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