proposed solution for ticket 686 (With some condition, ngx_palloc() function will alloc a illegal memory address)

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 04:17:01PM +0000, Chris Newton wrote:

> Ticket 686 is marked as 'wontfix' as the constraints on the size of the
> memory pool are documented.
> 
> I'd like to suggest that the constraints are enforced by the code to
> prevent issues. eg.,

Thanks for your suggestion.  This was considered previously, and 
the answer is no, as such enforcement introduces generally 
unneeded run-time code.  Futher, in your particular variant it 
masks bugs in the calling code instead of encouraging the authors 
to fix them.

Instead, consider introducing appropriate checking during 
configuration parsing if you provide your own pools with 
configurable sizes (and provide appropriate compiled-in sizes if 
there are any).

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