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Re: [patch] Fix for BZ 17905 -- unbounded alloca in catopen
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:54:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: [patch] Fix for BZ 17905 -- unbounded alloca in catopen
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 04:41:24PM -0700, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Attached patch fixes BZ #17905 -- unbounded alloca in catopen, and
> adds a test for it.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Paul Pluzhnikov
>
>
> 2015-07-12 Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
>
> [BZ #17905]
> * catgets/Makefile (tst-catgets-mem): New test.
> * catgets/catgets.c (catopen): Don't use unbounded alloca.
> * catgets/open_catalog.c (__open_catalog): Likewise.
> * catgets/tst-catgets.c (do_bz17905): Test unbounded alloca.
> diff --git a/catgets/Makefile b/catgets/Makefile
> index 4624a88..56de38b 100644
> --- a/catgets/Makefile
> +++ b/catgets/Makefile
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ test-srcs = test-gencat
> ifeq ($(run-built-tests),yes)
> tests-special += $(objpfx)de/libc.cat $(objpfx)test1.cat $(objpfx)test2.cat \
> $(objpfx)sample.SJIS.cat $(objpfx)test-gencat.out
> +tests-special += $(objpfx)tst-catgets-mem.out
> endif
>
> gencat-modules = xmalloc
> @@ -50,9 +51,11 @@ catgets-CPPFLAGS := -DNLSPATH='"$(msgcatdir)/%L/%N:$(msgcatdir)/%L/LC_MESSAGES/%
>
> generated += de.msg test1.cat test1.h test2.cat test2.h sample.SJIS.cat \
> test-gencat.h
> +generated += tst-catgets.mtrace tst-catgets-mem.out
> +
> generated-dirs += de
>
> -tst-catgets-ENV = NLSPATH="$(objpfx)%l/%N.cat" LANG=de
> +tst-catgets-ENV = NLSPATH="$(objpfx)%l/%N.cat" LANG=de MALLOC_TRACE=$(objpfx)tst-catgets.mtrace
>
> ifeq ($(run-built-tests),yes)
> # This test just checks whether the program produces any error or not.
> @@ -86,4 +89,8 @@ $(objpfx)test-gencat.out: test-gencat.sh $(objpfx)test-gencat \
> $(objpfx)sample.SJIS.cat: sample.SJIS $(objpfx)gencat
> $(built-program-cmd) -H $(objpfx)test-gencat.h < $(word 1,$^) > $@; \
> $(evaluate-test)
> +
> +$(objpfx)tst-catgets-mem.out: $(objpfx)tst-catgets.out
> + $(common-objpfx)malloc/mtrace $(objpfx)tst-catgets.mtrace > $@; \
> + $(evaluate-test)
> endif
> diff --git a/catgets/catgets.c b/catgets/catgets.c
> index cf93d56..28a2f59 100644
> --- a/catgets/catgets.c
> +++ b/catgets/catgets.c
> @@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
> License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
>
> -#include <alloca.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <locale.h>
> #include <nl_types.h>
> @@ -35,6 +34,7 @@ catopen (const char *cat_name, int flag)
> __nl_catd result;
> const char *env_var = NULL;
> const char *nlspath = NULL;
> + char *tmp = NULL;
>
> if (strchr (cat_name, '/') == NULL)
> {
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ catopen (const char *cat_name, int flag)
> {
> /* Append the system dependent directory. */
> size_t len = strlen (nlspath) + 1 + sizeof NLSPATH;
> - char *tmp = alloca (len);
> + tmp = malloc (len);
>
check if result is null.
> diff --git a/catgets/open_catalog.c b/catgets/open_catalog.c
> index e069416..4db4181 100644
> --- a/catgets/open_catalog.c
> +++ b/catgets/open_catalog.c
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ __open_catalog (const char *cat_name, const char *nlspath, const char *env_var,
> size_t tab_size;
> const char *lastp;
> int result = -1;
> + char *buf = NULL;
>
> if (strchr (cat_name, '/') != NULL || nlspath == NULL)
> fd = open_not_cancel_2 (cat_name, O_RDONLY);
> @@ -58,22 +59,22 @@ __open_catalog (const char *cat_name, const char *nlspath, const char *env_var,
> { \
> char *old_buf = buf; \
> bufmax += 256 + (n); \
why this doesn't trigger quadratic behaviour? Doubling sizes would be
faster.
> - buf = (char *) alloca (bufmax); \
> - memcpy (buf, old_buf, bufact); \
> + buf = realloc (buf, bufmax); \
> + if (__glibc_unlikely (buf == NULL)) \
> + { \
> + free (old_buf); \
> + return -1; \
> + } \
> }
>