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author | Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> | 2013-05-22 14:50:26 -0400 |
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committer | Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> | 2013-05-22 14:50:26 -0400 |
commit | 7a44c18fb4b1a65ebb1fece0b0d04f2570ed4d82 (patch) | |
tree | a6d12bc38f6df81be682c581c525653c883ed2f7 /sysdeps/unix/get_child_max.c | |
parent | b50a71810bbd35b8c83ba6eff4e6cc6faf93a7ea (diff) | |
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Fix _nl_find_msg malloc failure case, and callers.
This patch fixes two issues, and perhaps should be two distinct commits, but I present it here as one for the sake of completeness. Commit 006dd86111c44572dbd3b26e9c63dd0f834d7762 fails to check malloc's return in intl/dcigettext.c (_nl_find_msg): ~~~ freemem_size = INITIAL_BLOCK_SIZE; newmem = (transmem_block_t *) malloc (freemem_size); ... newmem->next = transmem_list; transmem_list = newmem; ~~~ If malloc fails then newmem is NULL then newmem->next results in a fault. The fix is easy enough, check for newmem != NULL, and fall through to the error condition below which returns (char *) -1 e.g. resource error. The problem is that returning (char *) -1 will break all sorts of other code, so while what we did is correct, the real failure case fix is slightly broader. There are 4 other places where _nl_find_msg is called, one is OK, the other three are fixed to handle -1 error return value. No regressions on x86-64 or x86. However, no regressions isn't really a useful metric for this code. The change was tested as documented here: http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/WhiteBox using SystemTap for fault injection to simulate malloc failure. --- 2013-05-03 Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat.com> [BZ #15441] * intl/dcigettext.c (DCIGETTEXT): Skip translating if _nl_find_msg returns -1. (_nl_find_msg): Return -1 if recursive call returned -1. If newmem is null return -1. * intl/loadmsgcat.c (_nl_load_domain): If _nl_find_msg returns -1 abort loading the domain.
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