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util: Return valid allocation for qemu_try_memalign() with zero size
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Currently qemu_try_memalign()'s behaviour if asked to allocate
0 bytes is rather variable:
 * on Windows, we will assert
 * on POSIX platforms, we get the underlying behaviour of
   the posix_memalign() or equivalent function, which may be
   either "return a valid non-NULL pointer" or "return NULL"

Explictly check for 0 byte allocations, so we get consistent
behaviour across platforms.  We handle them by incrementing the size
so that we return a valid non-NULL pointer that can later be passed
to qemu_vfree().  This is permitted behaviour for the
posix_memalign() API and is the most usual way that underlying
malloc() etc implementations handle a zero-sized allocation request,
because it won't trip up calling code that assumes NULL means an
error.  (This includes our own qemu_memalign(), which will abort on
NULL.)

This change is a preparation for sharing the qemu_try_memalign() code
between Windows and POSIX.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions util/oslib-posix.c
Expand Up @@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ void *qemu_try_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size)
g_assert(is_power_of_2(alignment));
}

if (size == 0) {
size++;
}
#if defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MEMALIGN)
int ret;
ret = posix_memalign(&ptr, alignment, size);
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion util/oslib-win32.c
Expand Up @@ -48,12 +48,14 @@ void *qemu_try_memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size)
{
void *ptr;

g_assert(size != 0);
if (alignment < sizeof(void *)) {
alignment = sizeof(void *);
} else {
g_assert(is_power_of_2(alignment));
}
if (size == 0) {
size++;
}
ptr = _aligned_malloc(size, alignment);
trace_qemu_memalign(alignment, size, ptr);
return ptr;
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