Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 14:49:40 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>, Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r265367 - head/lib/libc/regex Message-ID: <5367EB54.1080109@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <B11B5B25-8E05-4225-93D5-3A607332F19A@FreeBSD.org> References: <201405051641.s45GfFje086423@svn.freebsd.org> <5367CD77.40909@freebsd.org> <B11B5B25-8E05-4225-93D5-3A607332F19A@FreeBSD.org>
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El 5/5/2014 1:28 PM, David Chisnall escribió: > On 5 May 2014, at 18:42, Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Please don't commit OpenBSD errors. Now you mix calloc() with the >> realloc() for the same variable later which makes calloc() zeroing >> pointless and waste of CPU. > > The purpose of calloc() here is not (primarily) to get the zero'd size, it's to get the overflow-checking behaviour for calloc. > Yes, but I reverted it because there are other ways to check for overflows without the performance hit. > The uses of realloc() later do still potentially overflow, as they follow the realloc(pointer, size * sizeof(type)) antipattern. > FWIW, I actually got to this by checking kern/169302: unfortunately it is unclear if the NetBSD patch there (with or without the OpenBSD change) helps with the test case. Pedro.help
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