From ba819787ee93ceae94efd274f7849e317c1bff58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:50:09 +0000 Subject: 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. --- src/malloc/lite_malloc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'src/malloc/lite_malloc.c') diff --git a/src/malloc/lite_malloc.c b/src/malloc/lite_malloc.c index 008549d6..b09f30b0 100644 --- a/src/malloc/lite_malloc.c +++ b/src/malloc/lite_malloc.c @@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ void *__simple_malloc(size_t n) } weak_alias(__simple_malloc, malloc); +weak_alias(__simple_malloc, malloc0); -- cgit v1.2.1