Skip to content
Commit 52a9dab6 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Browse files

libsubcmd: Fix use-after-free for realloc(..., 0)



GCC 12 correctly reports a potential use-after-free condition in the
xrealloc helper. Fix the warning by avoiding an implicit "free(ptr)"
when size == 0:

In file included from help.c:12:
In function 'xrealloc',
    inlined from 'add_cmdname' at help.c:24:2: subcmd-util.h:56:23: error: pointer may be used after 'realloc' [-Werror=use-after-free]
   56 |                 ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:52:21: note: call to 'realloc' here
   52 |         void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:58:31: error: pointer may be used after 'realloc' [-Werror=use-after-free]
   58 |                         ret = realloc(ptr, 1);
      |                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:52:21: note: call to 'realloc' here
   52 |         void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fixes: 2f4ce5ec ("perf tools: Finalize subcmd independence")
Reported-by: default avatarValdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: default avatarValdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarJustin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220213182443.4037039-1-keescook@chromium.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 30d1c4d9
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment