[Mesa-stable] [PATCH] mapi: Make private copies of name strings provided by client.

[Brian Paul]

On 03/12/2015 04:34 PM, Mario Kleiner wrote:
> glXGetProcAddress("glFoo") ends up in stub_add_dynamic() to
> create dynamic stubs for dynamic functions. stub_add_dynamic()
> doesn't store the caller provided name string "Foo" in a mesa
> private copy, but just stores a pointer to the "glFoo" string
> passed to glXGetProcAddress - a pointer into arbitrary memory
> outside mesa's control.
>
> If the caller passes some dynamically allocated/changing
> memory buffer to glXGetProcAddress(), or the caller gets unmapped
> from memory, e.g., some dynamically loaded application
> plugin which uses OpenGL, this ends badly - with a dangling
> pointer.
>
> strdup() the name string provided by the client to avoid
> this problem.
>
> Cc: "10.3 10.4 10.5" <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de at gmail.com>
> ---
>   src/mapi/stub.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/mapi/stub.c b/src/mapi/stub.c
> index dfadbe1..45ccc6a 100644
> --- a/src/mapi/stub.c
> +++ b/src/mapi/stub.c
> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ stub_add_dynamic(const char *name)
>      if (!stub->addr)
>         return NULL;
>
> -   stub->name = (const void *) name;
> +   stub->name = (const void *) strdup(name);
>      /* to be fixed later */
>      stub->slot = -1;
>
>

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>