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On 09/09/2017 11:59 AM, Federico Manuel Bento wrote:
On 09/06/2017 02:46 PM, up201407890@alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt wrote: What are your thoughts on adding a SAFE_FREE() macro to glibc:#define SAFE_FREE(x) do { if((x) != 0x0) { free(x); (x) = (void *)0x1; } } while(0)After free(x), we set x to an address that will crash when dereferenced (use-after-free), and will also crash when it's an argument to free(). Note that NULL isn't used, because free(NULL) does nothing, which might hide potential double-free bugs.Maybe GCC should optionally do this for the actual call to free. There is some debate to what extend pointer *values* remain valid after free. Martin Sebor may have some thought on that.In any case, some GCC assistance is needed so thatfree (some_struct->ptr); free (some_struct);actually clobbers some_struct->ptr. I don't think we want to call out to explicit_bzero here.One of the advantages of doing this in the compiler (besides not having to change source code) is distinguishing rvalues from lvalues.MartinPerhaps this sould be used when making use of FORTIFY_SOURCE?
That seems reasonable. David Malcolm has done some preliminary work on a GCC maaloc/free optimization and diagnostic pass that might be well suited to this sort of instrumentation. Opening an enhancement request in GCC Bugzilla for this would help track interest in the feature. Martin
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