libsubcmd: Fix use-after-free for realloc(..., 0)

commit 52a9dab6d892763b2a8334a568bd4e2c1a6fde66 upstream.

GCC 12 correctly reports a potential use-after-free condition in the
xrealloc helper. Fix the warning by avoiding an implicit "free(ptr)"
when size == 0:

In file included from help.c:12:
In function 'xrealloc',
    inlined from 'add_cmdname' at help.c:24:2: subcmd-util.h:56:23: error: pointer may be used after 'realloc' [-Werror=use-after-free]
   56 |                 ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:52:21: note: call to 'realloc' here
   52 |         void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:58:31: error: pointer may be used after 'realloc' [-Werror=use-after-free]
   58 |                         ret = realloc(ptr, 1);
      |                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:52:21: note: call to 'realloc' here
   52 |         void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fixes: 2f4ce5ec1d ("perf tools: Finalize subcmd independence")
Reported-by: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220213182443.4037039-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Kees Cook 2022-02-13 10:24:43 -08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 7af6164cee
commit aca7e5b6a5

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@ -50,15 +50,8 @@ static NORETURN inline void die(const char *err, ...)
static inline void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size) static inline void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
{ {
void *ret = realloc(ptr, size); void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
if (!ret && !size) if (!ret)
ret = realloc(ptr, 1); die("Out of memory, realloc failed");
if (!ret) {
ret = realloc(ptr, size);
if (!ret && !size)
ret = realloc(ptr, 1);
if (!ret)
die("Out of memory, realloc failed");
}
return ret; return ret;
} }