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Authored by jhb on Feb 23 2021, 6:47 PM.
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Summary

Previously, the kern.file sysctl (which queries the global file table)
was queried and the results saved in an on-stack buffer. With a
sufficiently active system the sysctl's output could overflow the
stack's available space. Instead, switch to kinfo_getfile() from
libutil. This uses a sysctl which queries only the open files for the
current process, and it uses heap space instead of the stack to store
the sysctl output.

PR: 253602
Submittted by: ps (build glue patches)

Test Plan
  • ps@ kept having this port fail to build as its internal tests crashed due to the stack overflow with the old implementation
  • I've tested this on amd64 as part of a poudriere build for my desktop

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