[uclibc-ng-devel] [PATCH] ldso: exit if zalloc can't alloc memory

_dl_zalloc callers don't check for allocaton failure. It kind of makes sense since such early allocations are unlikely to fail, and even if they do, ldso would segv anyways thus bringing the issue to attention. However there's a gcc nuance which led to this patch. It seems gcc at -O2 (for DODEBUG build), does additional coge gen analysis for pointer dereference from erroneous paths and it "isolates" such code paths with a intrinsic abort/trap etc. The ldso code fragment which was triggering this: | add_ldso(struct dyn_elf *rpnt) | if (rpnt) | ... | else | rpnt = _dl_zalloc() | | rpnt->dyn = tpnt <---- potential NULL pointer deref ARC gcc currently generates an abort() call which doesn't exist in ldso, causing link errors (with a newer vrsion of binutils). ARM gcc 6.2.1 behaves similarly, altough instead of abort, it generates a trap inducing UDF instruction | 367c: ebfffb79 bl 2468 <_dl_malloc> | 3680: e51b2068 ldr r2, [fp, #-104] ; 0xffffff98 | 3684: e3500000 cmp r0, #0 | 3688: 0a000006 beq 36a8 <_dl_add_elf_hash_table+0x280> | ... | 36a8: e5862000 str r2, [r6] | 36ac: e7f000f0 udf # So add an explict dl_exit() in dl_zalloc error case to beat the compiler. Note that this error propagagtion analysis stops if the function in consideration (_dl_zalloc) is NOT inlined. Hence the reason it only shows up for DODEBUG builds which builds ldso at -O2 which is more aggressive about inlining. If this patch is not considered worth applying then the workaround suggested by Claudiu is to to build ldso with -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta(a)synopsys.com&gt; --- ldso/ldso/ldso.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/ldso/ldso/ldso.c b/ldso/ldso/ldso.c index 4e8a49ef5f91..539975bcfb0c 100644 --- a/ldso/ldso/ldso.c +++ b/ldso/ldso/ldso.c @@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ static void *_dl_zalloc(size_t size) void *p = _dl_malloc(size); if (p) _dl_memset(p, 0, size); + else + _dl_exit(1); return p; } -- 2.7.4