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authorJames Lemke <jwlemke@codesourcery.com>2014-11-26 13:45:24 -0800
committerJames Lemke <jwlemke@codesourcery.com>2014-12-01 13:05:18 -0800
commit08f1e1d2bca9ef087813357780ec0bafe71c7d29 (patch)
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Fix for test "malloc_usable_size: expected 7 but got 11"
[BZ #17581] The checking chain of unused chunks was terminated by a hash of the block pointer, which was sometimes confused with the chunk length byte. The chain is now terminated by a NULL byte.
Diffstat (limited to 'malloc')
-rw-r--r--malloc/hooks.c79
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/malloc/hooks.c b/malloc/hooks.c
index 00ee6be..996111a 100644
--- a/malloc/hooks.c
+++ b/malloc/hooks.c
@@ -90,31 +90,35 @@ __malloc_check_init (void)
#define MAGICBYTE(p) ((((size_t) p >> 3) ^ ((size_t) p >> 11)) & 0xFF)
-/* Visualize the chunk as being partitioned into blocks of 256 bytes from the
- highest address of the chunk, downwards. The beginning of each block tells
- us the size of the previous block, up to the actual size of the requested
- memory. Our magic byte is right at the end of the requested size, so we
- must reach it with this iteration, otherwise we have witnessed a memory
- corruption. */
+/* Visualize the chunk as being partitioned into blocks of 255 bytes from the
+ highest address of the chunk, downwards. The end of each block tells us
+ the size of that block, up to the actual size of the requested memory.
+ The last block has a length of zero and is followed by the magic byte.
+ Our magic byte is right at the end of the requested size. If we don't
+ reach it with this iteration we have witnessed a memory corruption. */
static size_t
malloc_check_get_size (mchunkptr p)
{
- size_t size;
+ size_t total_sz, size;
unsigned char c;
unsigned char magic = MAGICBYTE (p);
assert (using_malloc_checking == 1);
- for (size = chunksize (p) - 1 + (chunk_is_mmapped (p) ? 0 : SIZE_SZ);
- (c = ((unsigned char *) p)[size]) != magic;
+ /* Validate the length-byte chain. */
+ total_sz = chunksize (p) + (chunk_is_mmapped (p) ? 0 : SIZE_SZ);
+ for (size = total_sz - 1;
+ (c = ((unsigned char *) p)[size]) != 0;
size -= c)
{
- if (c <= 0 || size < (c + 2 * SIZE_SZ))
- {
- malloc_printerr (check_action, "malloc_check_get_size: memory corruption",
- chunk2mem (p));
- return 0;
- }
+ if (size <= c + 2 * SIZE_SZ)
+ break;
+ }
+ if (c != 0 || ((unsigned char *) p)[--size] != magic)
+ {
+ malloc_printerr (check_action, "malloc_check_get_size: memory corruption",
+ chunk2mem (p));
+ return 0;
}
/* chunk2mem size. */
@@ -130,22 +134,24 @@ mem2mem_check (void *ptr, size_t sz)
{
mchunkptr p;
unsigned char *m_ptr = ptr;
- size_t i;
+ size_t user_sz, block_sz, i;
if (!ptr)
return ptr;
p = mem2chunk (ptr);
- for (i = chunksize (p) - (chunk_is_mmapped (p) ? 2 * SIZE_SZ + 1 : SIZE_SZ + 1);
- i > sz;
- i -= 0xFF)
+ user_sz = chunksize (p) + (chunk_is_mmapped (p) ? 0 : SIZE_SZ);
+ user_sz -= 2 * SIZE_SZ;
+ for (i = user_sz - 1; i > sz; i -= block_sz)
{
- if (i - sz < 0x100)
- {
- m_ptr[i] = (unsigned char) (i - sz);
- break;
- }
- m_ptr[i] = 0xFF;
+ block_sz = i - (sz + 1);
+ if (block_sz > 0xff)
+ block_sz = 0xff;
+
+ m_ptr[i] = (unsigned char) block_sz;
+
+ if (block_sz == 0)
+ break;
}
m_ptr[sz] = MAGICBYTE (p);
return (void *) m_ptr;
@@ -166,11 +172,12 @@ mem2chunk_check (void *mem, unsigned char **magic_p)
return NULL;
p = mem2chunk (mem);
+ sz = chunksize (p);
+ magic = MAGICBYTE (p);
if (!chunk_is_mmapped (p))
{
/* Must be a chunk in conventional heap memory. */
int contig = contiguous (&main_arena);
- sz = chunksize (p);
if ((contig &&
((char *) p < mp_.sbrk_base ||
((char *) p + sz) >= (mp_.sbrk_base + main_arena.system_mem))) ||
@@ -180,12 +187,13 @@ mem2chunk_check (void *mem, unsigned char **magic_p)
next_chunk (prev_chunk (p)) != p)))
return NULL;
- magic = MAGICBYTE (p);
- for (sz += SIZE_SZ - 1; (c = ((unsigned char *) p)[sz]) != magic; sz -= c)
+ for (sz += SIZE_SZ - 1; (c = ((unsigned char *) p)[sz]) != 0; sz -= c)
{
- if (c <= 0 || sz < (c + 2 * SIZE_SZ))
- return NULL;
+ if (sz <= c + 2 * SIZE_SZ)
+ break;
}
+ if (c != 0 || ((unsigned char *) p)[--sz] != magic)
+ return NULL;
}
else
{
@@ -201,15 +209,16 @@ mem2chunk_check (void *mem, unsigned char **magic_p)
offset < 0x2000) ||
!chunk_is_mmapped (p) || (p->size & PREV_INUSE) ||
((((unsigned long) p - p->prev_size) & page_mask) != 0) ||
- ((sz = chunksize (p)), ((p->prev_size + sz) & page_mask) != 0))
+ ((p->prev_size + sz) & page_mask) != 0)
return NULL;
- magic = MAGICBYTE (p);
- for (sz -= 1; (c = ((unsigned char *) p)[sz]) != magic; sz -= c)
+ for (sz -= 1; (c = ((unsigned char *) p)[sz]) != 0; sz -= c)
{
- if (c <= 0 || sz < (c + 2 * SIZE_SZ))
- return NULL;
+ if (sz <= c + 2 * SIZE_SZ)
+ break;
}
+ if (c != 0 || ((unsigned char *) p)[--sz] != magic)
+ return NULL;
}
((unsigned char *) p)[sz] ^= 0xFF;
if (magic_p)