[PATCH] malloc: preserve errno on mcheck hooks [BZ #17924]

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue Dec 29 20:24:16 GMT 2020


Similar to the fix 69fda43b8d, save and restore errno for the hook
functions used for MALLOC_CHECK_=3.

It fixes the malloc/tst-free-errno-mcheck regression.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
---
 malloc/hooks.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/malloc/hooks.c b/malloc/hooks.c
index 6474ba8b38..fc285f15c6 100644
--- a/malloc/hooks.c
+++ b/malloc/hooks.c
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ free_check (void *mem, const void *caller)
   if (!mem)
     return;
 
+  int err = errno;
+
 #ifdef USE_MTAG
   /* Quickly check that the freed pointer matches the tag for the memory.
      This gives a useful double-free detection.  */
@@ -274,12 +276,16 @@ free_check (void *mem, const void *caller)
     {
       __libc_lock_unlock (main_arena.mutex);
       munmap_chunk (p);
-      return;
     }
-  /* Mark the chunk as belonging to the library again.  */
-  (void)TAG_REGION (chunk2rawmem (p), CHUNK_AVAILABLE_SIZE (p) - CHUNK_HDR_SZ);
-  _int_free (&main_arena, p, 1);
-  __libc_lock_unlock (main_arena.mutex);
+  else
+    {
+      /* Mark the chunk as belonging to the library again.  */
+      (void)TAG_REGION (chunk2rawmem (p), CHUNK_AVAILABLE_SIZE (p)
+                                         - CHUNK_HDR_SZ);
+      _int_free (&main_arena, p, 1);
+      __libc_lock_unlock (main_arena.mutex);
+    }
+  __set_errno (err);
 }
 
 static void *
-- 
2.25.1



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