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-rw-r--r--newlib/libc/include/sys/reent.h5
-rw-r--r--newlib/libc/reent/reent.c2
-rw-r--r--newlib/libc/stdlib/mprec.c6
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/newlib/libc/include/sys/reent.h b/newlib/libc/include/sys/reent.h
index 60eb208a7..ed3d9aa01 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/include/sys/reent.h
+++ b/newlib/libc/include/sys/reent.h
@@ -800,6 +800,11 @@ struct _reent
#endif /* !_REENT_SMALL */
+/* This value is used in stdlib/misc.c. reent/reent.c has to know it
+ as well to make sure the freelist is correctly free'd. Therefore
+ we define it here, rather than in stdlib/misc.c, as before. */
+#define _Kmax (sizeof (size_t) << 3)
+
/*
* All references to struct _reent are via this pointer.
* Internally, newlib routines that need to reference it should use _REENT.
diff --git a/newlib/libc/reent/reent.c b/newlib/libc/reent/reent.c
index 3c9de71f7..63812db83 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/reent/reent.c
+++ b/newlib/libc/reent/reent.c
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ _DEFUN (_reclaim_reent, (ptr),
if (_REENT_MP_FREELIST(ptr))
{
int i;
- for (i = 0; i < 15 /* _Kmax */; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < _Kmax; i++)
{
struct _Bigint *thisone, *nextone;
diff --git a/newlib/libc/stdlib/mprec.c b/newlib/libc/stdlib/mprec.c
index 6e84ece5b..2b982ef55 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/stdlib/mprec.c
+++ b/newlib/libc/stdlib/mprec.c
@@ -86,8 +86,12 @@
#include <reent.h>
#include "mprec.h"
-/* reent.c knows this value */
+/* This is defined in sys/reent.h as (sizeof (size_t) << 3) now, as in NetBSD.
+ The old value of 15 was wrong and made newlib vulnerable against buffer
+ overrun attacks (CVE-2009-0689), same as other implementations of gdtoa
+ based on BSD code.
#define _Kmax 15
+*/
_Bigint *
_DEFUN (Balloc, (ptr, k), struct _reent *ptr _AND int k)