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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2017-10-17 12:41:00 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2017-10-17 12:41:00 +0100
commit7b7009999ab8daac9db776c850b7df6e1f586334 (patch)
tree5423e586e7d59f5072bc3d50246ad493ee957df1
parentd3037ba6a398d37585b3d34ff9ed439848ba98a1 (diff)
downloadbinutils-gdb-7b7009999ab8daac9db776c850b7df6e1f586334.tar.gz
Fix double-free corruption
Fixes a double-free regression introduced by commit b7b030adc405 ("Return unique_xmalloc_ptr from target_read_stralloc"): gdb.sum: Running src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp ... ERROR: Process no longer exists Valgrind shows: (gdb) catch syscall ==3687== Thread 1: ==3687== Invalid free() / delete / delete[] / realloc() ==3687== at 0x4C29CF0: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:530) ==3687== by 0x610862: xfree(void*) (common-utils.c:101) ==3687== by 0x440D5D: gdb::xfree_deleter<char>::operator()(char*) const (gdb_unique_ptr.h:34) ==3687== by 0x446CC6: std::unique_ptr<char, gdb::xfree_deleter<char> >::reset(char*) (unique_ptr.h:344) ==3687== by 0x81BE50: xml_fetch_content_from_file(char const*, void*) (xml-support.c:1042) ==3687== by 0x81DA86: xml_init_syscalls_info(char const*) (xml-syscall.c:366) ==3687== by 0x81DBDD: init_syscalls_info(gdbarch*) (xml-syscall.c:398) ==3687== by 0x81E131: get_syscall_by_number(gdbarch*, int, syscall*) (xml-syscall.c:599) ==3687== by 0x5BE86F: catch_syscall_command_1(char*, int, cmd_list_element*) (break-catch-syscall.c:481) ==3687== by 0x4B46B1: do_sfunc(cmd_list_element*, char*, int) (cli-decode.c:138) ==3687== by 0x4B76B8: cmd_func(cmd_list_element*, char*, int) (cli-decode.c:1952) ==3687== by 0x7E91C7: execute_command(char*, int) (top.c:615) ==3687== Address 0x14332ae0 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 4,096 free'd ==3687== at 0x4C2AB8B: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:785) ==3687== by 0x610792: xrealloc (common-utils.c:62) ==3687== by 0x81BE3E: xml_fetch_content_from_file(char const*, void*) (xml-support.c:1042) ==3687== by 0x81DA86: xml_init_syscalls_info(char const*) (xml-syscall.c:366) ==3687== by 0x81DBDD: init_syscalls_info(gdbarch*) (xml-syscall.c:398) ==3687== by 0x81E131: get_syscall_by_number(gdbarch*, int, syscall*) (xml-syscall.c:599) ==3687== by 0x5BE86F: catch_syscall_command_1(char*, int, cmd_list_element*) (break-catch-syscall.c:481) ==3687== by 0x4B46B1: do_sfunc(cmd_list_element*, char*, int) (cli-decode.c:138) ==3687== by 0x4B76B8: cmd_func(cmd_list_element*, char*, int) (cli-decode.c:1952) ==3687== by 0x7E91C7: execute_command(char*, int) (top.c:615) ==3687== by 0x6A422D: command_handler(char*) (event-top.c:583) ==3687== by 0x6A45F2: command_line_handler(char*) (event-top.c:773) [...] The problem is that if xrealloc decides it needs a new memory block, it frees the previous block/pointer, and then text.reset() frees it again. gdb/ChangeLog: 2017-10-17 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * xml-support.c (xml_fetch_content_from_file): Call unique_ptr::release() instead unique_ptr::get() when passing through xrealloc.
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--gdb/xml-support.c2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 6a8d16fef5d..65952c465b5 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-10-17 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
+
+ * xml-support.c (xml_fetch_content_from_file): Call
+ unique_ptr::release() instead unique_ptr::get() when passing
+ through xrealloc.
+
2017-10-17 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* regcache.c (regcache::xfer_part): Remove parameters read and
diff --git a/gdb/xml-support.c b/gdb/xml-support.c
index 76d03b90c70..42a4c918d6d 100644
--- a/gdb/xml-support.c
+++ b/gdb/xml-support.c
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ xml_fetch_content_from_file (const char *filename, void *baton)
break;
len = len * 2;
- text.reset ((char *) xrealloc (text.get (), len));
+ text.reset ((char *) xrealloc (text.release (), len));
}
text.get ()[offset] = '\0';