From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
To: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@bytedance.com>
Cc: anatoly.burakov@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, xuemingl@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: fix modify data area after memset
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 23:22:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231022232234.42168129@sovereign> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFOzZstVpa=Ypqq36dCwJh0ooKYu9EK9ku04mko-a1257tGwQ@mail.gmail.com>
2023-09-22 16:12 (UTC+0800), Fengnan Chang:
> ping
>
> Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@bytedance.com> 于2023年9月12日周二 17:05写道:
> >
> > Let's look at this path:
> > malloc_elem_free
> > ->malloc_elem_join_adjacent_free
> > ->join_elem(elem, elem->next)
> >
> > 0. cur elem's pad > 0
> > 1. data area memset in malloc_elem_free first.
> > 2. next elem is free, try to join cur elem and next.
> > 3. in join_elem, try to modify inner->size, this address had
> > memset in step 1, it casue the content of addrees become non-zero.
> >
> > If user call rte_zmalloc, and pick this elem, it can't get all
> > zero'd memory.
malloc_elem_join_adjacent_free() always calls memset() after join_elem(),
for the next and the previous element respectively.
How to reproduce this bug?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-22 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-12 9:04 [PATCH] eal: fix modify data area after memset Fengnan Chang
2023-09-22 8:12 ` Fengnan Chang
2023-10-22 20:22 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk [this message]
2023-10-23 9:07 ` [External] " Fengnan Chang
2023-10-25 16:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-10-30 12:31 ` Fengnan Chang
2023-10-17 13:32 ` Thomas Monjalon
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