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Fix bad pointer usage in xsparse.c

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* scripts/xsparse.c (read_xheader): Avoid undefined behavior by
accessing via null pointer sparse_map or out of its bounds when
the input is invalid.  This means we no longer need the ‘expect’
local, so omit it for simplicity.
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Paul Eggert
2024-11-06 10:18:13 -08:00
parent 9bbcac1cf7
commit d2b6b7b0a7
1 changed files with 11 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@ read_xheader (char *name)
{
char *kw, *val;
FILE *fp = fopen (name, "r");
char *expect = NULL;
size_t i = 0;
if (verbose)
@@ -179,10 +178,6 @@ read_xheader (char *name)
if (verbose)
printf ("Found variable GNU.sparse.%s = %s\n", kw, val);
if (expect && strcmp (kw, expect))
die (1, "bad keyword sequence: expected '%s' but found '%s'",
expect, kw);
expect = NULL;
if (strcmp (kw, "name") == 0)
{
outname = emalloc (strlen (val) + 1);
@@ -205,16 +200,25 @@ read_xheader (char *name)
{
sparse_map_size = string_to_size (val, NULL,
SIZE_MAX / sizeof *sparse_map);
if (sparse_map_size)
{
sparse_map = emalloc (sparse_map_size * sizeof *sparse_map);
sparse_map[0].offset = -1;
}
}
else if (strcmp (kw, "offset") == 0)
{
if (sparse_map_size <= i)
die (1, "bad GNU.sparse.map: spurious offset");
sparse_map[i].offset = string_to_off (val, NULL);
expect = "numbytes";
}
else if (strcmp (kw, "numbytes") == 0)
{
if (sparse_map_size <= i || sparse_map[i].offset < 0)
die (1, "bad GNU.sparse.map: spurious numbytes");
sparse_map[i++].numbytes = string_to_off (val, NULL);
if (i < sparse_map_size)
sparse_map[i].offset = -1;
}
else if (strcmp (kw, "map") == 0)
{
@@ -238,8 +242,6 @@ read_xheader (char *name)
die (1, "bad GNU.sparse.map: garbage at the end");
}
}
if (expect)
die (1, "bad keyword sequence: expected '%s' not found", expect);
if (version_major == 0 && sparse_map_size == 0)
die (1, "size of the sparse map unknown");
if (i != sparse_map_size)