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[Concept,11/37] malloc: return NULL if not initialized yet

Message ID	20251201170529.3237986-12-sjg@u-boot.org
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Headers	From: Simon Glass <sjg@u-boot.org> To: U-Boot Concept <concept@u-boot.org> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 10:04:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20251201170529.3237986-12-sjg@u-boot.org> In-Reply-To: <20251201170529.3237986-1-sjg@u-boot.org> References: <20251201170529.3237986-1-sjg@u-boot.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID-Hash: OKQIBWIODW2QOMQ7EUO7V32UPMS2J5Y7 CC: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>, Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com> Precedence: list Subject: [Concept] [PATCH 11/37] malloc: return NULL if not initialized yet Archived-At: <https://lists.u-boot.org/archives/list/concept@u-boot.org/message/OKQIBWIODW2QOMQ7EUO7V32UPMS2J5Y7/> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Series	malloc: Import dlmalloc 2.8.6 \| [Concept,00/37] malloc: Import dlmalloc 2.8.6 [Concept,01/37] test: hooks: Add a symlink for tasman [Concept,02/37] treewide: Add missing string.h includes [Concept,03/37] imx8mp: Increase the BSS limit for a few boards [Concept,04/37] test: Use TOTAL_MALLOC_LEN for abuf and alist tests [Concept,05/37] malloc: Rename dlmalloc.c to dlmalloc_old.c [Concept,06/37] malloc: Rename malloc.h to malloc_old.h [Concept,07/37] malloc: Import dlmalloc 2.8.6 [Concept,08/37] malloc: Add mem_malloc_init() and sbrk() [Concept,09/37] malloc: Add U-Boot configuration for dlmalloc 2.8.6 [Concept,10/37] malloc: Fix assert warning [Concept,11/37] malloc: return NULL if not initialized yet [Concept,12/37] Add a simple malloc() implementation for pre-relocation [Concept,13/37] malloc: Enable assertions if UNIT_TEST is enabled [Concept,14/37] malloc: Reduce code size with INSECURE and NO_MALLINFO [Concept,15/37] malloc: work around some memalign fragmentation issues [Concept,16/37] malloc: use hidden visibility [Concept,17/37] dlmalloc: calloc: fix zeroing early allocations [Concept,18/37] sandbox: Use a prefix for all allocation functions [Concept,19/37] malloc: Annotate allocator for valgrind [Concept,20/37] test: Support testing malloc() failures [Concept,21/37] dlmalloc: Fix a warning with clang-15 [Concept,22/37] mcheck: prepare +1 tier for mcheck-wrappers, in dl-*alloc commands [Concept,23/37] mcheck: Use memset/memcpy instead of MALLOC_ZERO/MALLOC_COPY for mcheck. [Concept,24/37] mcheck: integrate mcheck into dlmalloc.c [Concept,25/37] mcheck: support memalign [Concept,26/37] mcheck: add pedantic mode support [Concept,27/37] malloc: Avoid defining calloc() [Concept,28/37] malloc: Set up the malloc() state in mem_malloc_init() [Concept,29/37] malloc: Allow building dlmalloc with SPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE [Concept,30/37] malloc: Add a way to control the size of dlmalloc [Concept,31/37] malloc: Add NO_REALLOC_IN_PLACE option to reduce code size [Concept,32/37] malloc: Add NO_TREE_BINS option to reduce code size [Concept,33/37] malloc: Add SIMPLE_MEMALIGN to simplify memalign for code size [Concept,34/37] malloc: Add SMALLCHUNKS_AS_FUNCS to convert macros to funcs [Concept,35/37] test: Add some tests for dlmalloc [Concept,36/37] malloc: Switch to the new malloc() implementation [Concept,37/37] doc: Add malloc documentation

Commit Message

Simon Glass Dec. 1, 2025, 5:04 p.m. UTC

  From: Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com>

When malloc() was called before it was properly initialized
(as would happen if when used before relocation to RAM) it returned
random, non-NULL values, which called all kinds of difficult to debug
subsequent errors.

Make sure to return NULL when initialization was not done yet.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2740544881f652566756815dda4da0bcd946e9de)
---

 common/dlmalloc.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/common/dlmalloc.c b/common/dlmalloc.c
index ff13a779211..baa9b500e10 100644
--- a/common/dlmalloc.c
+++ b/common/dlmalloc.c
@@ -4582,6 +4582,11 @@  static void* tmalloc_small(mstate m, size_t nb) {
 #if !ONLY_MSPACES
 
 void* dlmalloc(size_t bytes) {
+#ifdef __UBOOT__
+  /* Return NULL if not initialized yet */
+  if (!mem_malloc_start && !mem_malloc_end)
+    return NULL;
+#endif
   /*
      Basic algorithm:
      If a small request (< 256 bytes minus per-chunk overhead):