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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2014-01-16 10:20:22 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2014-01-16 10:21:52 +0530
commit980cb5180e1b71224a57ca52b995c959b7148c09 (patch)
tree132d22c6a5d1ea9993dcc3bf721f089b40857e49 /nscd
parent2393fc0119fa291ff01b7b912dda2069257c8600 (diff)
Don't use alloca in addgetnetgrentX (BZ #16453)
addgetnetgrentX has a buffer which is grown as per the needs of the requested size either by using alloca or by falling back to malloc if the size is larger than 1K. There are two problems with the alloca bits: firstly, it doesn't really extend the buffer since it does not use the return value of the extend_alloca macro, which is the location of the reallocated buffer. Due to this the buffer does not actually extend itself and hence a subsequent write may overwrite stuff on the stack. The second problem is more subtle - the buffer growth on the stack is discontinuous due to block scope local variables. Combine that with the fact that unlike realloc, extend_alloca does not copy over old content and you have a situation where the buffer just has garbage in the space where it should have had data. This could have been fixed by adding code to copy over old data whenever we call extend_alloca, but it seems unnecessarily complicated. This code is not exactly a performance hotspot (it's called when there is a cache miss, so factors like network lookup or file reads will dominate over memory allocation/reallocation), so this premature optimization is unnecessary. Thanks Brad Hubbard <bhubbard@redhat.com> for his help with debugging the problem.
Diffstat (limited to 'nscd')
-rw-r--r--nscd/netgroupcache.c37
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/nscd/netgroupcache.c b/nscd/netgroupcache.c
index 9fc16640ae..58234b1492 100644
--- a/nscd/netgroupcache.c
+++ b/nscd/netgroupcache.c
@@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req,
size_t buffilled = sizeof (*dataset);
char *buffer = NULL;
size_t nentries = 0;
- bool use_malloc = false;
size_t group_len = strlen (key) + 1;
union
{
@@ -159,7 +158,7 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req,
}
memset (&data, '\0', sizeof (data));
- buffer = alloca (buflen);
+ buffer = xmalloc (buflen);
first_needed.elem.next = &first_needed.elem;
memcpy (first_needed.elem.name, key, group_len);
data.needed_groups = &first_needed.elem;
@@ -241,21 +240,8 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req,
if (buflen - req->key_len - bufused < needed)
{
- size_t newsize = MAX (2 * buflen,
- buflen + 2 * needed);
- if (use_malloc || newsize > 1024 * 1024)
- {
- buflen = newsize;
- char *newbuf = xrealloc (use_malloc
- ? buffer
- : NULL,
- buflen);
-
- buffer = newbuf;
- use_malloc = true;
- }
- else
- extend_alloca (buffer, buflen, newsize);
+ buflen += MAX (buflen, 2 * needed);
+ buffer = xrealloc (buffer, buflen);
}
nhost = memcpy (buffer + bufused,
@@ -322,18 +308,8 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req,
}
else if (status == NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL && e == ERANGE)
{
- size_t newsize = 2 * buflen;
- if (use_malloc || newsize > 1024 * 1024)
- {
- buflen = newsize;
- char *newbuf = xrealloc (use_malloc
- ? buffer : NULL, buflen);
-
- buffer = newbuf;
- use_malloc = true;
- }
- else
- extend_alloca (buffer, buflen, newsize);
+ buflen *= 2;
+ buffer = xrealloc (buffer, buflen);
}
}
@@ -478,8 +454,7 @@ addgetnetgrentX (struct database_dyn *db, int fd, request_header *req,
}
out:
- if (use_malloc)
- free (buffer);
+ free (buffer);
*resultp = dataset;