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-rw-r--r--include/util.h16
-rw-r--r--lib/Makemodule.am2
-rw-r--r--lib/util/alloc.c54
3 files changed, 71 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/util.h b/include/util.h
index ae8c43c..ba95b03 100644
--- a/include/util.h
+++ b/include/util.h
@@ -115,4 +115,20 @@ int padd_file(int outfd, uint64_t size, size_t blocksize);
*/
uint32_t get_source_date_epoch(void);
+/*
+ Helper for allocating data structures with flexible array members.
+
+ 'base_size' is the size of the struct itself, 'item_size' the size of a
+ single array element and 'nmemb' the number of elements.
+
+ Iternally checks for arithmetic overflows when allocating the combined thing.
+ */
+void *alloc_flex(size_t base_size, size_t item_size, size_t nmemb);
+
+/* Basically the same as calloc, but *ALWAYS* does overflow checking */
+void *alloc_array(size_t item_size, size_t nmemb);
+
+/* allocates len + 1 (for the null-terminator) and does overflow checking */
+void *alloc_string(size_t len);
+
#endif /* UTIL_H */
diff --git a/lib/Makemodule.am b/lib/Makemodule.am
index 6301435..fb9d613 100644
--- a/lib/Makemodule.am
+++ b/lib/Makemodule.am
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ libutil_a_SOURCES += lib/util/read_data.c include/util.h
libutil_a_SOURCES += lib/util/print_version.c lib/util/mkdir_p.c
libutil_a_SOURCES += lib/util/str_table.c include/str_table.h
libutil_a_SOURCES += lib/util/dirstack.c lib/util/padd_file.c
-libutil_a_SOURCES += lib/util/read_data_at.c
+libutil_a_SOURCES += lib/util/read_data_at.c lib/util/alloc.c
libutil_a_SOURCES += lib/util/source_date_epoch.c
libutil_a_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS)
libutil_a_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS)
diff --git a/lib/util/alloc.c b/lib/util/alloc.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d748a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/util/alloc.c
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later */
+/*
+ * alloc.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2019 David Oberhollenzer <goliath@infraroot.at>
+ */
+#include "config.h"
+
+#include "util.h"
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+void *alloc_flex(size_t base_size, size_t item_size, size_t nmemb)
+{
+ size_t size;
+
+ if (SZ_MUL_OV(nmemb, item_size, &size)) {
+ errno = EOVERFLOW;
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ if (SZ_ADD_OV(base_size, size, &size)) {
+ errno = EOVERFLOW;
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ return calloc(1, size);
+}
+
+void *alloc_array(size_t item_size, size_t nmemb)
+{
+ size_t size;
+
+ if (SZ_MUL_OV(nmemb, item_size, &size)) {
+ errno = EOVERFLOW;
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ return calloc(1, size);
+}
+
+void *alloc_string(size_t len)
+{
+ size_t size;
+
+ if (SZ_ADD_OV(len, 1, &size)) {
+ errno = EOVERFLOW;
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ return calloc(1, len);
+}