Small changes around C-stack limit

- Better documentation in 'testes/cstack.lua' about using
'debug.setCstacklimit' to find a good limit.

- Constant LUAI_MAXCSTACK gets added CSTACKERR (extra stack for
error handling), so that it is compatible with the argument to
'debug.setCstacklimit'.
This commit is contained in:
Roberto Ierusalimschy 2019-06-26 13:26:36 -03:00
parent c1a63c45f8
commit 8b7cfee26b
4 changed files with 25 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ LUA_API lua_State *lua_newstate (lua_Alloc f, void *ud) {
preinit_thread(L, g);
g->allgc = obj2gco(L); /* by now, only object is the main thread */
L->next = NULL;
g->Cstacklimit = L->nCcalls = LUAI_MAXCSTACK;
g->Cstacklimit = L->nCcalls = LUAI_MAXCSTACK + CSTACKERR;
g->frealloc = f;
g->ud = ud;
g->warnf = NULL;

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@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
/* compiled with -O0, Lua uses a lot of C stack space... */
#undef LUAI_MAXCSTACK
#define LUAI_MAXCSTACK (400 + CSTACKERR)
#define LUAI_MAXCSTACK 400
/* to avoid warnings, and to make sure value is really unused */
#define UNUSED(x) (x=0, (void)(x))

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@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
** (It will crash with a limit too high.)
*/
#if !defined(LUAI_MAXCSTACK)
#define LUAI_MAXCSTACK 2200
#define LUAI_MAXCSTACK 2000
#endif

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@ -4,15 +4,29 @@
local debug = require "debug"
print"testing C-stack overflow detection"
local origlimit = debug.setCstacklimit(400)
print("current stack limit: " .. origlimit)
debug.setCstacklimit(origlimit)
print"If this test craches, see its file ('cstack.lua')"
-- Segmentation faults in these tests probably result from a C-stack
-- overflow. To avoid these errors, recompile Lua with a smaller
-- value for the constant 'LUAI_MAXCCALLS' or else ensure a larger
-- stack for the program.
-- overflow. To avoid these errors, you can use the function
-- 'debug.setCstacklimit' to set a smaller limit for the use of
-- C stack by Lua. After finding a reliable limit, you might want
-- to recompile Lua with this limit as the value for
-- the constant 'LUAI_MAXCCALLS', which defines the default limit.
-- (The default limit is printed by this test.)
-- Alternatively, you can ensure a larger stack for the program.
-- For Linux, a limit up to 30_000 seems Ok. Windows cannot go much
-- higher than 2_000.
local origlimit = debug.setCstacklimit(400)
print("default stack limit: " .. origlimit)
-- change this value for different limits for this test suite
local currentlimit = origlimit
debug.setCstacklimit(currentlimit)
print("current stack limit: " .. currentlimit)
local function checkerror (msg, f, ...)
local s, err = pcall(f, ...)
@ -104,7 +118,7 @@ do print("testing changes in C-stack limit")
return n
end
assert(debug.setCstacklimit(400) == origlimit)
assert(debug.setCstacklimit(400) == currentlimit)
local lim400 = check()
-- a very low limit (given that the several calls to arive here)
local lowlimit = 38