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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2025-07-30 01:55:22 +0200
committerWilco Dijkstra <wilco.dijkstra@arm.com>2025-08-11 14:33:30 +0000
commita96a82c4a5efd3139e75cd11fd2a5554164dd5a0 (patch)
tree27140c5fe4c4b62a1d6e2465522abaac8cd1a4df
parentc491dabd8a3de090d1ccb4589421a44e79c5b185 (diff)
malloc: Make sure tcache_key is odd enough
We want tcache_key not to be a commonly-occurring value in memory, so ensure a minimum amount of one and zero bits. And we need it non-zero, otherwise even if tcache_double_free_verify sets e->key to 0 before calling __libc_free, it gets called again by __libc_free, thus looping indefinitely. Fixes: c968fe50628db74b52124d863cd828225a1d305c ("malloc: Use tailcalls in __libc_free") (cherry picked from commit 2536c4f8584082a1ac4c5e0a2a6222e290d43983)
-rw-r--r--malloc/malloc.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/malloc/malloc.c b/malloc/malloc.c
index b89b654f17..e4e2f03600 100644
--- a/malloc/malloc.c
+++ b/malloc/malloc.c
@@ -230,6 +230,9 @@
/* For uintptr_t. */
#include <stdint.h>
+/* For stdc_count_ones. */
+#include <stdbit.h>
+
/* For va_arg, va_start, va_end. */
#include <stdarg.h>
@@ -3152,6 +3155,19 @@ tcache_key_initialize (void)
if (__getrandom_nocancel_nostatus_direct (&tcache_key, sizeof(tcache_key),
GRND_NONBLOCK)
!= sizeof (tcache_key))
+ tcache_key = 0;
+
+ /* We need tcache_key to be non-zero (otherwise tcache_double_free_verify's
+ clearing of e->key would go unnoticed and it would loop getting called
+ through __libc_free), and we want tcache_key not to be a
+ commonly-occurring value in memory, so ensure a minimum amount of one and
+ zero bits. */
+ int minimum_bits = __WORDSIZE / 4;
+ int maximum_bits = __WORDSIZE - minimum_bits;
+
+ while (labs (tcache_key) <= 0x1000000
+ || stdc_count_ones (tcache_key) < minimum_bits
+ || stdc_count_ones (tcache_key) > maximum_bits)
{
tcache_key = random_bits ();
#if __WORDSIZE == 64