Commit 3cc673bd authored by Yossi Gottlieb's avatar Yossi Gottlieb Committed by Oran Agra
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Fix wrong zmalloc_size() assumption. (#7963)

When using a system with no malloc_usable_size(), zmalloc_size() assumed
that the heap allocator always returns blocks that are long-padded.

This may not always be the case, and will result with zmalloc_size()
returning a size that is bigger than allocated. At least in one case
this leads to out of bound write, process crash and a potential security
vulnerability.

Effectively this does not affect the vast majority of users, who use
jemalloc or glibc.

This problem along with a (different) fix was reported by Drew DeVault.

(cherry picked from commit 9824fe3e)
parent de0919cd
......@@ -181,9 +181,6 @@ void *zrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size) {
size_t zmalloc_size(void *ptr) {
void *realptr = (char*)ptr-PREFIX_SIZE;
size_t size = *((size_t*)realptr);
/* Assume at least that all the allocations are padded at sizeof(long) by
* the underlying allocator. */
if (size&(sizeof(long)-1)) size += sizeof(long)-(size&(sizeof(long)-1));
return size+PREFIX_SIZE;
}
size_t zmalloc_usable(void *ptr) {
......
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