[PATCH 4/6] sandbox: libc_malloc: fail allocations exceeding MALLOC_MAX_SIZE
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Thu Feb 20 12:30:30 PST 2025
The libc allocator is a bit unpredictable, because overcommit can
mean that big allocations succeed initially, only to OOM later.
Let's thus enforce a maximum allocation limit on the barebox side in
alignment with the bare metal allocators.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
arch/sandbox/os/libc_malloc.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/sandbox/os/libc_malloc.c b/arch/sandbox/os/libc_malloc.c
index e34156cd49e7..ac97fc37eee5 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/os/libc_malloc.c
+++ b/arch/sandbox/os/libc_malloc.c
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
#include <malloc.h>
#define BAREBOX_ENOMEM 12
+#define BAREBOX_MALLOC_MAX_SIZE 0x40000000
+
extern int barebox_errno;
void barebox_malloc_stats(void)
@@ -15,7 +17,10 @@ void barebox_malloc_stats(void)
void *barebox_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t bytes)
{
- void *mem = memalign(alignment, bytes);
+ void *mem = NULL;
+
+ if (alignment <= BAREBOX_MALLOC_MAX_SIZE && bytes <= BAREBOX_MALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ mem = memalign(alignment, bytes);
if (!mem)
barebox_errno = BAREBOX_ENOMEM;
@@ -25,7 +30,10 @@ void *barebox_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t bytes)
void *barebox_malloc(size_t size)
{
- void *mem = malloc(size);
+ void *mem = NULL;
+
+ if (size <= BAREBOX_MALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ mem = malloc(size);
if (!mem)
barebox_errno = BAREBOX_ENOMEM;
@@ -44,7 +52,10 @@ void barebox_free(void *ptr)
void *barebox_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
{
- void *mem = realloc(ptr, size);
+ void *mem = NULL;
+
+ if (size <= BAREBOX_MALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ mem = realloc(ptr, size);
if (!mem)
barebox_errno = BAREBOX_ENOMEM;
@@ -53,7 +64,12 @@ void *barebox_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
void *barebox_calloc(size_t n, size_t elem_size)
{
- void *mem = calloc(n, elem_size);
+ size_t product;
+ void *mem = NULL;
+
+ if (!__builtin_add_overflow(n, elem_size, &product) &&
+ product <= BAREBOX_MALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
+ mem = calloc(n, elem_size);
if (!mem)
barebox_errno = BAREBOX_ENOMEM;
--
2.39.5
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