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-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gdb/target.c7
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 2d6a751..7d7a6fc 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-11-04 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
+
+ * target.c (memory_xfer_partial): Cap write to 4KB.
+
2013-11-01 Tiago Stürmer Daitx <tdaitx@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* breakpoint.c (create_longjmp_master_breakpoint): Allow libc
diff --git a/gdb/target.c b/gdb/target.c
index 22d7fb6..7aeab79 100644
--- a/gdb/target.c
+++ b/gdb/target.c
@@ -1678,6 +1678,13 @@ memory_xfer_partial (struct target_ops *ops, enum target_object object,
void *buf;
struct cleanup *old_chain;
+ /* A large write request is likely to be partially satisfied
+ by memory_xfer_partial_1. We will continually malloc
+ and free a copy of the entire write request for breakpoint
+ shadow handling even though we only end up writing a small
+ subset of it. Cap writes to 4KB to mitigate this. */
+ len = min (4096, len);
+
buf = xmalloc (len);
old_chain = make_cleanup (xfree, buf);
memcpy (buf, writebuf, len);