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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 17:11:50 +0200
From: Wolf <wolf@...fsden.cz>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@...eferenced.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] implement recallocarray(3)

On 2020-08-02 16:54:26 -0600, Ariadne Conill wrote:
> +void *recallocarray(void *ptr, size_t om, size_t m, size_t n)
> +{
> +	void *newptr;
> +	size_t old_size, new_size;
> +
> +	if (n && m > -1 / n) {
> +		errno = ENOMEM;
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +	new_size = m * n;
> +
> +	if (n && om > -1 / n) {
> +		errno = EINVAL;
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +	old_size = om * n;
> +
> +	newptr = calloc(m, n);
> +	if (!newptr)
> +		return ptr;

From reading openbsd's source I would say this should return 0 (or
newptr), not ptr. Otherwise I'm not sure how the caller could tell if
the resize failed or not.

> +
> +	if (new_size <= old_size) {
> +		memcpy((char *) newptr, ptr, new_size);
> +	}
> +	else {
> +		memcpy((char *) newptr, ptr, old_size);
> +		memset((char *) newptr + old_size, 0, new_size - old_size);
> +	}
> +
> +	memset(ptr, 0, old_size);
> +	free(ptr);
> +
> +	return newptr;
> +}

W.

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