Make logging use a fixed-length buffer to avoid race conditions.

Ekdohibs · paramat · commit c350cfb50b3b · 2016-04-21T10:15:17.000+01:00
Previously, race conditions occurred inside logging, that caused
segfaults because a thread was trying to use an old pointer that
was freed when the string was reallocated. Using a fixed-length buffer
avoids this, at the cost of cutting too long messages over seveal lines.
diff --git a/src/log.cpp b/src/log.cpp
@@ -34,17 +34,22 @@ with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 #include <cerrno>
 #include <cstring>
 
+const int BUFFER_LENGTH = 256;
+
 class StringBuffer : public std::streambuf {
 public:
-	StringBuffer() {}
+	StringBuffer() {
+		buffer_index = 0;
+	}
 
 	int overflow(int c);
 	virtual void flush(const std::string &buf) = 0;
 	std::streamsize xsputn(const char *s, std::streamsize n);
 	void push_back(char c);
 
 private:
-	std::string buffer;
+	char buffer[BUFFER_LENGTH];
+	int buffer_index;
 };
 
 
@@ -338,11 +343,18 @@ std::streamsize StringBuffer::xsputn(const char *s, std::streamsize n)
 void StringBuffer::push_back(char c)
 {
 	if (c == '\n' || c == '\r') {
-		if (!buffer.empty())
-			flush(buffer);
-		buffer.clear();
+		if (buffer_index)
+			flush(std::string(buffer, buffer_index));
+		buffer_index = 0;
 	} else {
-		buffer.push_back(c);
+		int index = buffer_index;
+		buffer[index++] = c;
+		if (index >= BUFFER_LENGTH) {
+			flush(std::string(buffer, buffer_index));
+			buffer_index = 0;
+		} else {
+			buffer_index = index;
+		}
 	}
 }
 
