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From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: NULL deref SEGV in malloc.c:unbin()
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 20:34:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131229013445.GJ24286@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131229000511.GZ1685@port70.net>

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 01:05:15AM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net> [2013-12-29 01:01:12 +0100]:
> > 
> > so it seems the corruption starts before opendir
> > 
> > it would be nice to see where 0x2139018 comes from and why
> > mal.binmap and mal.bin[40] aren't managed properly
> 
> probably unrelated but i dont understand
> 
> split = (void *)((char *)self + n);
> 
> in pretrim and trim
> 
> why is the n enough between the start of self and split
> chunks? (and not n + overhead)

The first line of malloc() calls adjust_size(&n). After that, n is
always in terms of total chunk size needed, not caller-usable size.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-29  1:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-27 18:35 David Wuertele
2013-12-27 19:05 ` Rich Felker
2013-12-27 19:44   ` David Wuertele
2013-12-27 22:13     ` Rich Felker
2013-12-28  0:25       ` David Wuertele
2013-12-28  1:28         ` David Wuertele
2013-12-28  3:03           ` Rich Felker
2013-12-29  0:01           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-12-29  0:05             ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-12-29  1:34               ` Rich Felker [this message]
2013-12-30 19:17             ` David Wuertele
2013-12-30 21:25               ` Rich Felker

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