Malloc routines have overflow problems

Jason Tishler jason@tishler.net
Mon Aug 12 04:04:00 GMT 2002


Jeff,

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:22:24PM -0400, J. Johnston wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > BTW, mEMALIGn() *might* have similar issues because it uses
> > request2size and has some (long) casts too.  Maybe the same overflow
> > check should be used here too?
> 
> No, this is not a problem.  mEMALIGn turns around and calls mALLOc
> which has the check.  If mALLOc fails, it fails immediately.

Doh!  Sorry for the false alarm.

Thanks again,
Jason



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