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authorTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-06-07 04:42:43 +0000
committerTed Unangst <tedu@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-06-07 04:42:43 +0000
commit04cbf62b42ee87a16c8281c93b1379907d8ee56e (patch)
treebae31ae03c7844cc8e4dc2c93f3c887fcd27e3e7 /lib/libc/stdlib
parent18b04af3af812d2a0deba6da7478775abd5b0c79 (diff)
adding pointer protection to 'G' was too heavyweight. Since malloc guard
should be generally usable, split this out into option 'P'. ok deraadt
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.39
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c12
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
index df62e7d3a52..2b0f5632a96 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.38 2005/05/24 16:48:35 tedu Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.39 2005/06/07 04:42:42 tedu Exp $
.\"
.Dd August 27, 1996
.Dt MALLOC 3
@@ -204,8 +204,6 @@ Enable guard pages and chunk randomization.
Each page size or larger allocation is followed by a guard page that will
cause a segmentation fault upon any access.
Smaller than page size chunks are returned in a random order.
-Pointer sized allocations are aligned to the end of a page to catch
-sizeof(ptr) errors where sizeof(*ptr) is meant.
.Pp
.It Cm H
.Dq Hint .
@@ -223,6 +221,11 @@ Currently junk is bytes of 0xd0; this is pronounced
Do not output warning messages when encountering possible corruption
or bad pointers.
.Pp
+.It Cm P
+.Dq Pointer Protection .
+Pointer sized allocations are aligned to the end of a page to catch
+sizeof(ptr) errors where sizeof(*ptr) is meant.
+.Pp
.It Cm R
.Dq realloc .
Always reallocate when
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
index 9f7ceba0802..e3405df39ae 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*/
#if defined(LIBC_SCCS) && !defined(lint)
-static char rcsid[] = "$OpenBSD: malloc.c,v 1.73 2005/05/24 16:39:05 tedu Exp $";
+static char rcsid[] = "$OpenBSD: malloc.c,v 1.74 2005/06/07 04:42:42 tedu Exp $";
#endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
/*
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ static int malloc_freeprot;
/* use guard pages after allocations? */
static int malloc_guard = 0;
+/* align pointers to end of page? */
+static int malloc_ptrguard;
#if defined(__FreeBSD__) || (defined(__OpenBSD__) && defined(MADV_FREE))
/* pass the kernel a hint on free pages ? */
@@ -612,6 +614,8 @@ malloc_init(void)
case 'J': malloc_junk = 1; break;
case 'n': malloc_silent = 0; break;
case 'N': malloc_silent = 1; break;
+ case 'p': malloc_ptrguard = 0; break;
+ case 'P': malloc_ptrguard = 1; break;
case 'r': malloc_realloc = 0; break;
case 'R': malloc_realloc = 1; break;
#ifdef __FreeBSD__
@@ -1082,7 +1086,7 @@ imalloc(size_t size)
if (suicide)
abort();
- if (malloc_guard && size == PTR_SIZE) {
+ if (malloc_ptrguard && size == PTR_SIZE) {
ptralloc = 1;
size = malloc_pagesize;
}
@@ -1128,7 +1132,7 @@ irealloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
return (NULL);
}
- if (malloc_guard && PTR_ALIGNED(ptr)) {
+ if (malloc_ptrguard && PTR_ALIGNED(ptr)) {
if (size <= PTR_SIZE)
return (ptr);
else {
@@ -1602,7 +1606,7 @@ ifree(void *ptr)
if (suicide)
return;
- if (malloc_guard && PTR_ALIGNED(ptr))
+ if (malloc_ptrguard && PTR_ALIGNED(ptr))
ptr = (char *)ptr - PTR_GAP;
index = ptr2index(ptr);