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From: Petr Machata <pmachata@gmail.com>
To: elfutils-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libdw: Don't overflow stack with user defined macro attributes array.
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:22:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbgpr26a.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1429624491-19587-1-git-send-email-mjw@redhat.com

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Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com> writes:

> -      Dwarf_Attribute attributes[proto->nforms];
> +      Dwarf_Attribute *attributes;
> +      Dwarf_Attribute *attributesp = NULL;
> +      Dwarf_Attribute nattributes[8];
> +      if (unlikely (proto->nforms > 8))
> +	{
> +	  attributesp = malloc (sizeof (Dwarf_Attribute) * proto->nforms);
> +	  if (attributesp == NULL)
> +	    {
> +	      __libdw_seterrno (DWARF_E_NOMEM);
> +	      return -1;
> +	    }
> +	  attributes = attributesp;
> +	}
> +      else
> +	attributes = &nattributes[0];
> +
>        for (Dwarf_Word i = 0; i < proto->nforms; ++i)
>  	{

There's a return in this loop that needs free (attributesp) as well.

Thanks,
Petr

             reply	other threads:[~2015-04-21 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-21 14:22 Petr Machata [this message]
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2015-04-22 11:46 Mark Wielaard
2015-04-21 18:40 Petr Machata
2015-04-21 18:32 Mark Wielaard
2015-04-21 13:54 Mark Wielaard

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