Commit 0c87849da5a for php.net
commit 0c87849da5a67a6f4cac4b6225cf026a7db5377b
Author: Julien Voisin <jvoisin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed Aug 26 18:31:00 2026 +0200
Validate large run map entries instead of assuming them (#23366)
Three places dispatch on the page map entry of a pointer, and reach the
large-run case by elimination, with the assumption written down as a
comment rather than checked:
if (EXPECTED(info & ZEND_MM_IS_SRUN)) {
...
} else /* if (info & ZEND_MM_IS_LRUN) */ {
The assumption does not always hold: when ZEND_MM_IS_FRUN is 0 and
zend_mm_free_pages_ex() zeroes chunk->map[page_num], a pointer to a
large run that has already been freed has info == 0, so it fails the SRUN test,
and falls into the large-run branch. There, ZEND_MM_LRUN_PAGES(0) is 0,
and the three callers quietly degrade:
- zend_mm_free_heap() frees a run of zero pages, i.e. a double free of a
large block is accepted and does nothing at all.
- zend_mm_size() reports a block size of 0.
- zend_mm_realloc_heap() takes old_size 0 and reallocates from there.
A large-block double free or a use of a freed pointer is silently absorbed by
the allocator instead of being a hard failure. This commit promotes the comment
to a real ZEND_MM_CHECK() in all three. The value is already in a register at
that point, so it costs a test and a branch.
This was checked under GDB by allocating a large block, freeing it, and then
reusing the pointer. Before, _efree() returned normally,
_zend_mem_block_size() returned 0 and _erealloc() returned a new pointer.
After this commit, each of the three aborts with "zend_mm_heap corrupted".
Amusingly, the two comments naming ZEND_MM_IS_LARGE_RUN referred to a
macro that does not exist: the real name is ZEND_MM_IS_LRUN.
diff --git a/Zend/zend_alloc.c b/Zend/zend_alloc.c
index fc7bc1f4d9d..575b54b11a2 100644
--- a/Zend/zend_alloc.c
+++ b/Zend/zend_alloc.c
@@ -1527,9 +1527,11 @@ static zend_always_inline void zend_mm_free_heap(zend_mm_heap *heap, void *ptr Z
ZEND_MM_CHECK(chunk->heap == heap, "zend_mm_heap corrupted");
if (EXPECTED(info & ZEND_MM_IS_SRUN)) {
zend_mm_free_small(heap, ptr, ZEND_MM_SRUN_BIN_NUM(info));
- } else /* if (info & ZEND_MM_IS_LRUN) */ {
- int pages_count = ZEND_MM_LRUN_PAGES(info);
+ } else {
+ /* A freed large run has a zeroed map entry, so this also rejects double frees. */
+ ZEND_MM_CHECK(info & ZEND_MM_IS_LRUN, "zend_mm_heap corrupted");
+ int pages_count = ZEND_MM_LRUN_PAGES(info);
ZEND_MM_CHECK(ZEND_MM_ALIGNED_OFFSET(page_offset, ZEND_MM_PAGE_SIZE) == 0, "zend_mm_heap corrupted");
zend_mm_free_large(heap, chunk, page_num, pages_count);
}
@@ -1557,7 +1559,8 @@ static size_t zend_mm_size(zend_mm_heap *heap, void *ptr ZEND_FILE_LINE_DC ZEND_
ZEND_MM_CHECK(chunk->heap == heap, "zend_mm_heap corrupted");
if (EXPECTED(info & ZEND_MM_IS_SRUN)) {
return bin_data_size[ZEND_MM_SRUN_BIN_NUM(info)];
- } else /* if (info & ZEND_MM_IS_LARGE_RUN) */ {
+ } else {
+ ZEND_MM_CHECK(info & ZEND_MM_IS_LRUN, "zend_mm_heap corrupted");
return ZEND_MM_LRUN_PAGES(info) * ZEND_MM_PAGE_SIZE;
}
#endif
@@ -1752,7 +1755,8 @@ static zend_always_inline void *zend_mm_realloc_heap(zend_mm_heap *heap, void *p
return ret;
} while (0);
- } else /* if (info & ZEND_MM_IS_LARGE_RUN) */ {
+ } else {
+ ZEND_MM_CHECK(info & ZEND_MM_IS_LRUN, "zend_mm_heap corrupted");
ZEND_MM_CHECK(ZEND_MM_ALIGNED_OFFSET(page_offset, ZEND_MM_PAGE_SIZE) == 0, "zend_mm_heap corrupted");
old_size = ZEND_MM_LRUN_PAGES(info) * ZEND_MM_PAGE_SIZE;
if (size > ZEND_MM_MAX_SMALL_SIZE && size <= ZEND_MM_MAX_LARGE_SIZE) {