Make possible to check memory allocations inside chromium

base/process/memory_linux.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "base/process/memory.h"
 
 #include <new>
 
 #include "base/file_util.h"
 #include "base/files/file_path.h"
 #include "base/logging.h"
 #include "base/process/internal_linux.h"
 #include "base/strings/string_number_conversions.h"
 
+#if defined(USE_TCMALLOC)
+// Used by UncheckedMalloc. If tcmalloc is linked to the executable
+// this will be replaced by a strong symbol that actually implement
+// the semantics and don't call new handler in case the allocation fails.
+extern "C" __attribute__((weak))
+void* tc_malloc_skip_new_handler_weak(size_t size) {
+  return malloc(size);
+}
+#endif
+
 namespace base {
 
 size_t g_oom_size = 0U;
 
 namespace {
 
 #if !defined(OS_ANDROID)
 void OnNoMemorySize(size_t size) {
   g_oom_size = size;
 
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     DVLOG(1) << "Adjusting oom_adj of " << process << " to " << score_str;
     int score_len = static_cast<int>(score_str.length());
     return (score_len == file_util::WriteFile(oom_file,
                                               score_str.c_str(),
                                               score_len));
   }
 
   return false;
 }
 
+bool UncheckedMalloc(size_t size, void** result) {
+#if defined(ADDRESS_SANITIZER) || defined(MEMORY_SANITIZER) || \
+    defined(THREAD_SANITIZER) || defined(LEAK_SANITIZER) || \
+    (!defined(LIBC_GLIBC) && !defined(USE_TCMALLOC))
+  *result = malloc(size);
+#elif defined(LIBC_GLIBC) && !defined(USE_TCMALLOC)
+  *result = __libc_malloc(size);
+#elif defined(USE_TCMALLOC)
+  *result = tc_malloc_skip_new_handler_weak(size);
+#endif
+  return *result;

[jar (doing other things), 2014/02/26 03:59:52]

nit: Clearer might be:
return NULL != *result;

+}
+
 }  // namespace base