From: Anatoly Burakov Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:04:27 +0000 (+0100) Subject: malloc: check for heap corruption X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64b6fcb1610814c68b3f6fe57f59732b98502aa3;p=dpdk.git malloc: check for heap corruption Previous code checked for both first/last elements being NULL, but if they weren't, the expectation was that they're both non-NULL, which will be the case under normal conditions, but may not be the case due to heap structure corruption. Coverity issue: 272566 Fixes: bb372060dad4 ("malloc: make heap a doubly-linked list") Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov Acked-by: Harry van Haaren --- diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c index ee79dcd987..af81961d27 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c @@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ malloc_elem_insert(struct malloc_elem *elem) struct malloc_elem *prev_elem, *next_elem; struct malloc_heap *heap = elem->heap; + /* first and last elements must be both NULL or both non-NULL */ + if ((heap->first == NULL) != (heap->last == NULL)) { + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Heap is probably corrupt\n"); + return; + } + if (heap->first == NULL && heap->last == NULL) { /* if empty heap */ heap->first = elem;