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Diffstat (limited to 'erts')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/notes.xml | 59 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/vsn.mk | 2 |
2 files changed, 60 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml index c896ee0cae..af0d4d7377 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -30,6 +30,65 @@ </header> <p>This document describes the changes made to the ERTS application.</p> +<section><title>Erts 6.3.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Fix getifaddrs realloc pointer error</p> + <p> + When a buffer was exhausted and subsequently reallocated, + we could get an unsafe pointer pointing to faulty memory.</p> + <p> + For this to occur we would need to have a large number of + interfaces and a reallocation of memory to a lower + addresses.</p> + <p> + The symptom would be garbage returned from + erlang:port_control(Port, 25, []) + (prim_inet:getifaddrs(Port) resulting in a badarg) or a + segmentation fault.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12445</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Don't close all file descriptors twice in child_setup</p> + <p> + The commit c2b4eab25c907f453a394d382c04cd04e6c06b49 + introduced an error in which child_setup erroneously + tried to close all file descriptors twice.</p> + <p> + Use closefrom() if available when closing all file + descriptors.</p> + <p> + The function closefrom() was only used in the vfork() + case before but is now also used in the fork() case if + available.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12446</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + During a crashdump all file descriptors are closed to + ensure the closing of the epmd port and to reserve a file + descriptor for the crashdump file.</p> + <p> + If a driver (third party library) cannot handle closing + of sockets this could result in a segmentation fault in + which case a crashdump would not be produced. This is now + fixed by only closing inets sockets via an emergency + close callback to the driver and thus closing the epmd + socket.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12447</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Erts 6.3</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> diff --git a/erts/vsn.mk b/erts/vsn.mk index d0dc8f7243..e4b071b090 100644 --- a/erts/vsn.mk +++ b/erts/vsn.mk @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ # %CopyrightEnd% # -VSN = 6.3 +VSN = 6.3.1 # Port number 4365 in 4.2 # Port number 4366 in 4.3 |