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allow clearing less than allocated and document freezero(3) better

OPENBSD_6_2
otto 7 years ago
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80c2ebad1c
2 changed files with 26 additions and 13 deletions
  1. +21
    -8
      src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3
  2. +5
    -5
      src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c

+ 21
- 8
src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.3 View File

@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.111 2017/04/10 06:31:31 jmc Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.3,v 1.112 2017/04/13 18:32:55 otto Exp $
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: April 10 2017 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: April 13 2017 $
.Dt MALLOC 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ The standard functions
.Fn calloc ,
and
.Fn realloc
allocate memory space.
allocate
.Em objects ,
regions of memory to store values.
The
.Fn malloc
function allocates uninitialized space for an object of
@ -94,6 +96,12 @@ function changes the size of the object pointed to by
to
.Fa size
bytes and returns a pointer to the (possibly moved) object.
If
.Fa ptr
is not
.Dv NULL ,
it must be a pointer returned by an earlier call to an allocation or
reallocation function that was not freed in between.
The contents of the object are unchanged up to the lesser
of the new and old sizes.
If the new size is larger, the value of the newly allocated portion
@ -183,8 +191,7 @@ The
.Fn freezero
function is similar to the
.Fn free
function except it ensures the memory being deallocated is explicitly
discarded.
function except it ensures memory is explicitly discarded.
If
.Fa ptr
is
@ -196,9 +203,15 @@ is not
.Dv NULL ,
the
.Fa size
argument must be the size of the earlier allocation that returned
.Fa ptr ,
otherwise the behaviour is undefined.
argument must be equal or smaller than the size of the earlier allocation
that returned
.Fa ptr .
.Fn freezero
guarantees the memory range starting at
.Fa ptr
with length
.Fa size
is discarded while deallocating the whole object originally allocated.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the allocation functions
return a pointer to the allocated space; otherwise, a


+ 5
- 5
src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c View File

@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
/* $OpenBSD: malloc.c,v 1.220 2017/04/10 05:45:02 otto Exp $ */
/* $OpenBSD: malloc.c,v 1.221 2017/04/13 18:32:55 otto Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 2008, 2010, 2011, 2016 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
* Copyright (c) 2012 Matthew Dempsky <matthew@openbsd.org>
@ -1340,15 +1340,15 @@ ofree(struct dir_info *argpool, void *p, int clear, int check, size_t argsz)
uint32_t chunknum =
find_chunknum(pool, r, p, 0);
if (info->bits[info->offset + chunknum] !=
if (info->bits[info->offset + chunknum] <
argsz)
wrterror(pool, "recorded old size %hu"
" != %zu",
" < %zu",
info->bits[info->offset + chunknum],
argsz);
}
} else if (argsz != sz - mopts.malloc_guard)
wrterror(pool, "recorded old size %zu != %zu",
} else if (sz - mopts.malloc_guard < argsz)
wrterror(pool, "recorded old size %zu < %zu",
sz - mopts.malloc_guard, argsz);
}
if (sz > MALLOC_MAXCHUNK) {


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