[PATCH 4/6] malloc: Improve free checks
Wilco Dijkstra
Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com
Mon Mar 31 12:59:42 GMT 2025
The checks on size can be merged and use __builtin_add_overflow. Since
tcache only handles small sizes (and rejects sizes < MINSIZE), delay this
check until after tcache.
---
diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c
index 24a2d50ec845d379e7eae0a2360cb669a06504ea..f8f35b337d91a0a4790d27163728fec53083f026 100644
--- a/malloc/malloc.c
+++ b/malloc/malloc.c
@@ -3465,16 +3465,8 @@ __libc_free (void *mem)
INTERNAL_SIZE_T size = chunksize (p);
- /* Little security check which won't hurt performance: the
- allocator never wraps around at the end of the address space.
- Therefore we can exclude some size values which might appear
- here by accident or by "design" from some intruder. */
- if (__builtin_expect ((uintptr_t) p > (uintptr_t) -size, 0)
- || __builtin_expect (misaligned_chunk (p), 0))
+ if (__glibc_unlikely (misaligned_chunk (p)))
malloc_printerr ("free(): invalid pointer");
- /* We know that each chunk is at least MINSIZE bytes. */
- if (__glibc_unlikely (size < MINSIZE))
- malloc_printerr ("free(): invalid size");
check_inuse_chunk (arena_for_chunk (p), p);
@@ -3483,6 +3475,11 @@ __libc_free (void *mem)
return;
#endif
+ /* Check size >= MINSIZE and p + size does not overflow. */
+ if (__glibc_unlikely (__builtin_add_overflow_p ((uintptr_t) p, size - MINSIZE,
+ (uintptr_t) 0)))
+ malloc_printerr ("free(): invalid size");
+
_int_free_chunk (arena_for_chunk (p), p, size, 0);
}
libc_hidden_def (__libc_free)
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