Re: [PATCH v2] Add reallocarray function.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

On 04/17/2017 10:01 AM, Dennis Wölfing wrote:
> The reallocarray function is an extension from OpenBSD.  It is an
> integer-overflow-safe replacement for realloc(p, X*Y) and
> malloc(X*Y) (realloc(NULL, X*Y)).  It can therefore help in preventing
> certain security issues in code.
> 
> This is an updated version of a patch originally submitted by Rüdiger
> Sonderfeld in May 2014.
> See <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-05/msg00481.html>.
> 
> Tested on x86_64-linux.

Rüdiger Sonderfeld has a future's copyright assignment for glibc, which
means we can accept work from Rüdiger.

However, we have no such assignment that I can see for yourself. It isn't
clear exactly how much you changed from Rüdiger's originally submitted
works. Say you only changed ~15 legally significant lines, then we might
be able to accept the new patch, but it would certainly need both author
names in the ChangeLog.

Would you consider signing a future's copyright assignment for glibc so
we can accept your present and future work for the project? Such an assignment
would allow us as maintainers to accept your current and all future work
submitted to the project.

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist#FSF_copyright_Assignment

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future

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Cheers,
Carlos.