[PATCH 03/18] harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow

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REALLOC_ARRAY inherently involves a multiplication which can
overflow size_t, resulting in a much smaller buffer than we
think we've allocated. We can easily harden it by using
st_mult() to check for overflow.  Likewise, we can add
ALLOC_ARRAY to do the same thing for xmalloc calls.

xcalloc() should already be fine, because it takes the two
factors separately, assuming the system calloc actually
checks for overflow. However, before we even hit the system
calloc(), we do our memory_limit_check, which involves a
multiplication. Let's check for overflow ourselves so that
this limit cannot be bypassed.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
---
 git-compat-util.h | 3 ++-
 wrapper.c         | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 0c65033..55c073d 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -779,7 +779,8 @@ extern int odb_pack_keep(char *name, size_t namesz, const unsigned char *sha1);
 extern char *xgetcwd(void);
 extern FILE *fopen_for_writing(const char *path);
 
-#define REALLOC_ARRAY(x, alloc) (x) = xrealloc((x), (alloc) * sizeof(*(x)))
+#define ALLOC_ARRAY(x, alloc) (x) = xmalloc(st_mult((alloc), sizeof(*(x))))
+#define REALLOC_ARRAY(x, alloc) (x) = xrealloc((x), st_mult((alloc), sizeof(*(x))))
 
 static inline char *xstrdup_or_null(const char *str)
 {
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 29a45d2..9afc1a0 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ void *xcalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
 {
 	void *ret;
 
+	if (unsigned_mult_overflows(nmemb, size))
+		die("data too large to fit into virtual memory space");
+
 	memory_limit_check(size * nmemb, 0);
 	ret = calloc(nmemb, size);
 	if (!ret && (!nmemb || !size))
-- 
2.7.1.572.gf718037

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