glibc/glibc-rh2248502.patch
2023-11-23 09:09:25 +01:00

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commit d0987c7014d33e96a7a0d170fea8bcc97163cead
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Nov 23 08:34:30 2023 +0100
stdlib: Add another workaround to the insertion sort phase of qsort
If the comparison function returns negative values incorrectly, it was
possible that we decrement tmp_ptr past the start of the array.
Improves commit e4d8117b82065dc72e8df80097360e7c05a349b9 ("stdlib:
Avoid another self-comparison in qsort").
diff --git a/stdlib/qsort.c b/stdlib/qsort.c
index be01fb5598de2257..6f28abbc7f9719fb 100644
--- a/stdlib/qsort.c
+++ b/stdlib/qsort.c
@@ -238,8 +238,17 @@ insertion_sort_qsort_partitions (void *const pbase, size_t total_elems,
while ((run_ptr += size) <= end_ptr)
{
tmp_ptr = run_ptr - size;
- while (run_ptr != tmp_ptr && cmp (run_ptr, tmp_ptr, arg) < 0)
- tmp_ptr -= size;
+ /* The initial pointer comparison avoids a call to cmp if the
+ pointer arguments are identical (the call returns zero with a
+ correctly implemented comparison function). The final
+ pointer comparison cannot be reached because the element at
+ base_ptr is the smallest element, but it prevents the loop
+ from running beyond the start of the array with a broken
+ comparison function. */
+ while (run_ptr != tmp_ptr
+ && cmp (run_ptr, tmp_ptr, arg) < 0
+ && run_ptr != base_ptr)
+ tmp_ptr -= size;
tmp_ptr += size;
if (tmp_ptr != run_ptr)