[Buildroot] [PATCH] top: fix double free causing a SIGABRT storm after SIGPIPE

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:52:53 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> On some platforms the command 'top -n1 | head' goes very often into an
> infinite loop of SIGABRT and double free()s.
> 
> Fix by applying a patch from upstream.
> 
> For a detailed explanation of the bug, see
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2016-August/084555.html
> 
> Thanks to Yann for the help in finding this bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
> Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> ---
>  ...op-move-free-prev_hist-out-of-signal-path.patch | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 package/busybox/0006-top-move-free-prev_hist-out-of-signal-path.patch

Applied to master, after changing the commit title: you're changing the
"busybox" package, not the "top" package.

Thanks!

Thomas
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