We have some special functions to wrap malloc, calloc, and realloc to
make sure we don't allocate more than some limit, similar to the
max-filesize and max-scansize limits. Our wrappers are really only
needed when allocating memory for scans based on untrusted user input,
where a scan file could have bytes that claim you need to allocate
some ridiculous amount of memory. Right now they're named:
- cli_malloc
- cli_calloc
- cli_realloc
- cli_realloc2
... and these names do not convey their purpose
This commit renames them to:
- cli_max_malloc
- cli_max_calloc
- cli_max_realloc
- cli_max_realloc2
The realloc ones also have an additional feature in that they will not
free your pointer if you try to realloc to 0 bytes. Freeing the memory
is undefined by the C spec, and only done with some realloc
implementations, so this stabilizes on the behavior of not doing that,
which should prevent accidental double-free's.
So for the case where you may want to realloc and do not need to have a
maximum, this commit adds the following functions:
- cli_safer_realloc
- cli_safer_realloc2
These are used for the MPOOL_REALLOC and MPOOL_REALLOC2 macros when
MPOOL is disabled (e.g. because mmap-support is not found), so as to
match the behavior in the mpool_realloc/2 functions that do not make use
of the allocation-limit.
There are a large number of allocations for fix sized buffers using the
`cli_malloc` and `cli_calloc` calls that check if the requested size is
larger than our allocation threshold for allocations based on untrusted
input. These allocations will *always* be higher than the threshold, so
the extra stack frame and check for these calls is a waste of CPU.
This commit replaces needless calls with A -> B:
- cli_malloc -> malloc
- cli_calloc -> calloc
- CLI_MALLOC -> MALLOC
- CLI_CALLOC -> CALLOC
I also noticed that our MPOOL_MALLOC / MPOOL_CALLOC are not limited by
the max-allocation threshold, when MMAP is found/enabled. But the
alternative was set to cli_malloc / cli_calloc when disabled. I changed
those as well.
I didn't change the cli_realloc/2 calls because our version of realloc
not only implements a threshold but also stabilizes the undefined
behavior in realloc to protect against accidental double-free's.
It may be worth implementing a cli_realloc that doesn't have the
threshold built-in, however, so as to allow reallocaitons for things
like buffers for loading signatures, which aren't subject to the same
concern as allocations for scanning possible malware.
There was one case in mbox.c where I changed MALLOC -> CLI_MALLOC,
because it appears to be allocating based on untrusted input.
