On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 09:08:40PM +0100, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > At a glance, looks like range_set_copy() is using
> > sizeof(struct range_set) == 12, but
> > range_set_init/range_set_grow/ALLOC_GROW/REALLOC_ARRAY is using
> > sizeof(rs->range) == 8.
>
> Attached patch seems to fix it -- basically, range_set_copy() is trying
> to copy more than it should. It was uncovered with the test case from
> Allan's commit because it's creating enough ranges to overflow the
> initial allocation on 32-bit.
Ugh, yeah, that is definitely a bug.
> diff --git a/line-log.c b/line-log.c
> index 951029665..cb0dc1110 100644
> --- a/line-log.c
> +++ b/line-log.c
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void range_set_release(struct range_set *rs)
> static void range_set_copy(struct range_set *dst, struct range_set *src)
> {
> range_set_init(dst, src->nr);
> - memcpy(dst->ranges, src->ranges, src->nr*sizeof(struct range_set));
> + memcpy(dst->ranges, src->ranges, src->nr*sizeof(struct range));
I think "sizeof(*dst->ranges)" is probably an even better fix, as it
infers the type of "dst". But these days we have COPY_ARRAY() to make it
even harder to get this kind of thing wrong.
I grepped for 'memcpy.*sizeof' and found one other case that's not a
bug, but is questionable.
Of the "good" cases, I think most of them could be converted into
something more obviously-correct, which would make auditing easier. The
three main cases I saw were:
1. Ones which can probably be converted to COPY_ARRAY().
2. Ones which just copy a single object, like:
memcpy(&dst, &src, sizeof(dst));
Perhaps we should be using struct assignment like:
dst = src;
here. It's safer and it should give the compiler more room to
optimize. The only downside is that if you have pointers, it is
easy to write "dst = src" when you meant "*dst = *src".
3. There were a number of alloc-and-copy instances. The copy part is
the same as (2) above, but you have to repeat the size, which is
potentially error-prone. I wonder if we would want something like:
#define ALLOC_COPY(dst, src) do { \
(dst) = xmalloc(sizeof(*(dst))); \
COPY_ARRAY(dst, src, 1); \
while(0)
That avoids having to specify the size at all, and triggers a
compile-time error if "src" and "dst" point to objects of different
sizes.
I suspect our friendly neighborhood coccinelle wizards could cook
up a conversion.
-Peff
