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realloc() and reallocarray() can either return NULL or a special non-NULL pointer, if their size argument is zero. This requires a bit more care to handle NULL-as-valid-result situation differently from NULL-as-error case. This has caused real issues before ([0]), and just recently bit again in production when performing bpf_program__attach_usdt(). This patch fixes 4 places that do or potentially could suffer from this mishandling of NULL, including the reported USDT-related one. There are many other places where realloc()/reallocarray() is used and NULL is always treated as an error value, but all those have guarantees that their size is always non-zero, so those spot don't need any extra handling. [0]d08ab82f59("libbpf: Fix double-free when linker processes empty sections") Fixes:999783c8bb("libbpf: Wire up spec management and other arch-independent USDT logic") Fixes:b63b3c490e("libbpf: Add bpf_program__set_insns function") Fixes:697f104db8("libbpf: Support custom SEC() handlers") Fixes:b126882672("libbpf: Change the order of data and text relocations.") Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230711024150.1566433-1-andrii@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.