2 files changed, 55 insertions, 1 deletions
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);
+}