bash: Disable custom memory allocator

Bash is failing trying to allocate memory [1] using the custom
memory allocator if we disable it the issue is fixed.

The major distributions also disabled by default [2], so we
don't have a good reason to use it.

The underlying issue is due to bash’s malloc using brk() calls
to allocate memory, which fail when address randomization is
enabled in kernel. sbrk() based custom allocators are obsolete.
There may be some performance impact of this however correctness
is more important.

[YOCTO #8452]

[1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8452#c0
[2] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8452#c5

(From OE-Core master rev: e42d8eff9eed7d1454b4f331d96dcee6dea232df)

Signed-off-by: Aníbal Limón <anibal.limon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock <joshua.lock@collabora.co.uk>

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
index d7b28cfffed241a308f22e9ef231125885ac8ddc..5204949035c72846d6ec2ddbe481ce7784a95404 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash.inc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ DEPENDS = "ncurses bison-native"
 inherit autotools gettext texinfo update-alternatives ptest
 
 EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "--exclude=autoheader"
-EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-job-control"
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-job-control --without-bash-malloc"
 
 ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "sh"
 ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[sh] = "${base_bindir}/sh"