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Diffstat (limited to 'vppinfra')
| -rw-r--r-- | vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.h | 6 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.c b/vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.c index cd8672e7ef4..6163d0b1341 100644 --- a/vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.c +++ b/vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.c @@ -874,6 +874,15 @@ void * mheap_alloc_with_flags (void * memory, uword memory_size, uword flags) h = uword_to_pointer (ah, void *); v = mheap_vector (h); + if (PREDICT_FALSE(memory + memory_size < v)) { + /* + * This will happen when the requested memory_size is too + * small to cope with the heap header and/or memory alignment. + */ + clib_mem_vm_free(memory, memory_size); + return 0; + } + size = memory + memory_size - v; } diff --git a/vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.h b/vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.h index c9eb60de639..a40c26cb60d 100644 --- a/vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.h +++ b/vppinfra/vppinfra/mheap.h @@ -48,7 +48,11 @@ always_inline void * mheap_get (void * v, uword size, uword * offset_return) { return mheap_get_aligned (v, size, 0, 0, offset_return); } -/* Create allocation heap of given size. */ +/* Create allocation heap of given size. + * The actual usable size is smaller than the requested size. + * memory_bytes must be greater than mheap_page_size + sizeof (mheap_t) + 16. + * Otherwise, allocation may fail and return 0. + */ void * mheap_alloc (void * memory, uword memory_bytes); void * mheap_alloc_with_flags (void * memory, uword memory_bytes, uword flags); |