From cf30aa43a5917f441c9438aaee201c53c8e1d76b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Simmons-Talbott Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 11:58:43 -0400 Subject: hurd: writev: Get rid of alloca Use a scratch_buffer rather than alloca to avoid potential stack overflows. Checked on i686-gnu and x86_64-linux-gnu Message-Id: <20230608155844.976554-1-josimmon@redhat.com> --- sysdeps/posix/writev.c | 37 ++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) (limited to 'sysdeps/posix') diff --git a/sysdeps/posix/writev.c b/sysdeps/posix/writev.c index 53e090c087..d4c3cf6f03 100644 --- a/sysdeps/posix/writev.c +++ b/sysdeps/posix/writev.c @@ -19,19 +19,13 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include #include -static void -ifree (char **ptrp) -{ - free (*ptrp); -} - - /* Write data pointed by the buffers described by VECTOR, which is a vector of COUNT 'struct iovec's, to file descriptor FD. The data is written in the order specified. @@ -53,22 +47,17 @@ __writev (int fd, const struct iovec *vector, int count) bytes += vector[i].iov_len; } - /* Allocate a temporary buffer to hold the data. We should normally - use alloca since it's faster and does not require synchronization - with other threads. But we cannot if the amount of memory - required is too large. */ - char *buffer; - char *malloced_buffer __attribute__ ((__cleanup__ (ifree))) = NULL; - if (__libc_use_alloca (bytes)) - buffer = (char *) __alloca (bytes); - else - { - malloced_buffer = buffer = (char *) malloc (bytes); - if (buffer == NULL) - /* XXX I don't know whether it is acceptable to try writing - the data in chunks. Probably not so we just fail here. */ - return -1; - } + /* Allocate a temporary buffer to hold the data. Use a scratch_buffer + since it's faster for small buffer sizes but can handle larger + allocations as well. */ + + struct scratch_buffer buf; + scratch_buffer_init (&buf); + if (!scratch_buffer_set_array_size (&buf, 1, bytes)) + /* XXX I don't know whether it is acceptable to try writing + the data in chunks. Probably not so we just fail here. */ + return -1; + char *buffer = buf.data; /* Copy the data into BUFFER. */ size_t to_copy = bytes; @@ -86,6 +75,8 @@ __writev (int fd, const struct iovec *vector, int count) ssize_t bytes_written = __write (fd, buffer, bytes); + scratch_buffer_free (&buf); + return bytes_written; } libc_hidden_def (__writev) -- cgit v1.2.3