fix calloc when __simple_malloc implementation is used

previously, calloc's implementation encoded assumptions about the
implementation of malloc, accessing a size_t word just prior to the
allocated memory to determine if it was obtained by mmap to optimize
out the zero-filling. when __simple_malloc is used (static linking a
program with no realloc/free), it doesn't matter if the result of this
check is wrong, since all allocations are zero-initialized anyway. but
the access could be invalid if it crosses a page boundary or if the
pointer is not sufficiently aligned, which can happen for very small
allocations.

this patch fixes the issue by moving the zero-fill logic into malloc.c
with the full malloc, as a new function named __malloc0, which is
provided by a weak alias to __simple_malloc (which always gives
zero-filled memory) when the full malloc is not in use.
This commit is contained in:
Rich Felker
2015-06-22 18:50:09 +00:00
parent 55d061f031
commit ba819787ee
3 changed files with 15 additions and 12 deletions
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@@ -356,6 +356,17 @@ void *malloc(size_t n)
return CHUNK_TO_MEM(c);
}
void *__malloc0(size_t n)
{
void *p = malloc(n);
if (p && !IS_MMAPPED(MEM_TO_CHUNK(p))) {
size_t *z;
n = (n + sizeof *z - 1)/sizeof *z;
for (z=p; n; n--, z++) if (*z) *z=0;
}
return p;
}
void *realloc(void *p, size_t n)
{
struct chunk *self, *next;