libsubcmd: Fix use-after-free for realloc(..., 0)

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1967582
commit 52a9dab6d892763b2a8334a568bd4e2c1a6fde66 upstream.

GCC 12 correctly reports a potential use-after-free condition in the
xrealloc helper. Fix the warning by avoiding an implicit "free(ptr)"
when size == 0:

In file included from help.c:12:
In function 'xrealloc',
    inlined from 'add_cmdname' at help.c:24:2: subcmd-util.h:56:23: error: pointer may be used after 'realloc' [-Werror=use-after-free]
   56 |                 ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:52:21: note: call to 'realloc' here
   52 |         void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:58:31: error: pointer may be used after 'realloc' [-Werror=use-after-free]
   58 |                         ret = realloc(ptr, 1);
      |                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
subcmd-util.h:52:21: note: call to 'realloc' here
   52 |         void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fixes: 2f4ce5ec1d447beb ("perf tools: Finalize subcmd independence")
Reported-by: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220213182443.4037039-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>

diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/subcmd-util.h b/tools/lib/subcmd/subcmd-util.h
index 794a375dad3601e26f870edfa75b3458f1341aa8..b2aec04fce8f674e61eddf6e4820b738f4d4c7e3 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/subcmd-util.h
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/subcmd-util.h
@@ -50,15 +50,8 @@ static NORETURN inline void die(const char *err, ...)
 static inline void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size)
 {
        void *ret = realloc(ptr, size);
-       if (!ret && !size)
-               ret = realloc(ptr, 1);
-       if (!ret) {
-               ret = realloc(ptr, size);
-               if (!ret && !size)
-                       ret = realloc(ptr, 1);
-               if (!ret)
-                       die("Out of memory, realloc failed");
-       }
+       if (!ret)
+               die("Out of memory, realloc failed");
        return ret;
 }