[PATCH 04/16] malloc: Simplify __mtag_tag_new_usable
Szabolcs Nagy
szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Thu Mar 4 16:31:18 GMT 2021
The chunk cannot be a dumped one here. The only non-obvious cases
are free and realloc which may be called on a dumped area chunk,
but in both cases it can be verified that tagging is already
avoided for dumped area chunks.
---
malloc/arena.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/malloc/arena.c b/malloc/arena.c
index bf17be27d4..0777dc70c6 100644
--- a/malloc/arena.c
+++ b/malloc/arena.c
@@ -298,11 +298,6 @@ __mtag_tag_new_usable (void *ptr)
if (ptr)
{
mchunkptr cp = mem2chunk(ptr);
- /* This likely will never happen, but we can't handle retagging
- chunks from the dumped main arena. So just return the
- existing pointer. */
- if (DUMPED_MAIN_ARENA_CHUNK (cp))
- return ptr;
ptr = __libc_mtag_tag_region (__libc_mtag_new_tag (ptr),
CHUNK_AVAILABLE_SIZE (cp) - CHUNK_HDR_SZ);
}
--
2.17.1
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