git: e116e040f309 - main - grep: don't rely on implementation-defined malloc(0) behavior
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Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2023 02:19:50 UTC
The branch main has been updated by kevans:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=e116e040f3091eca914a06dcd0bdd9f1aea23add
commit e116e040f3091eca914a06dcd0bdd9f1aea23add
Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-11-05 02:08:36 +0000
Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-11-05 02:19:12 +0000
grep: don't rely on implementation-defined malloc(0) behavior
The very few places that rely on malloc/calloc of a zero-size region
won't attempt to dereference it, so just return NULL rather than rolling
the dice with the underlying malloc implementation.
Reported by: brooks, Shawn Webb
---
usr.bin/grep/util.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/usr.bin/grep/util.c b/usr.bin/grep/util.c
index 1805cc74bfc6..936abc41b3ef 100644
--- a/usr.bin/grep/util.c
+++ b/usr.bin/grep/util.c
@@ -650,6 +650,8 @@ grep_malloc(size_t size)
{
void *ptr;
+ if (size == 0)
+ return (NULL);
if ((ptr = malloc(size)) == NULL)
err(2, "malloc");
return (ptr);
@@ -663,6 +665,8 @@ grep_calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
{
void *ptr;
+ if (nmemb == 0 || size == 0)
+ return (NULL);
if ((ptr = calloc(nmemb, size)) == NULL)
err(2, "calloc");
return (ptr);