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bsdinstall(8): partedit can hang/crash on read/lseek/malloc failures
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Authored by will_worrbase.com on Mar 3 2018, 8:36 AM.
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bsdinstall(8): partedit can hang/crash on read/lseek/malloc failures

This fixes a few problems:

  • if lseek(2) fails, bootsize underflows to SIZE_T_MAX, making the resulting allocation dangerous
  • if malloc(3) fails, we end up with a null pointer deref later
  • if read(2) fails, the installer will hang trying to read(2) boot loader code
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Tested via entering the partition editor in bsdinstall

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will_worrbase.com retitled this revision from Replace malloc + read in a loop with mmap to bsdinstall(8): partedit can hang/crash on read/lseek/malloc failures.Mar 3 2018, 8:37 AM
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