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[malloc] Avoid false positive warnings from valgrind

Calling discard_cache() is likely to result in a call to
free_memblock(), which will call valgrind_make_blocks_noaccess()
before returning.  This causes valgrind to report an invalid read on
the next iteration through the loop in alloc_memblock().

Fix by explicitly calling valgrind_make_blocks_defined() after
discard_cache() returns.  Also call valgrind_make_blocks_noaccess()
before calling discard_cache(), to guard against free list corruption
while executing cache discarders.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
tags/v1.20.1
Michael Brown 6 years ago
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@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ void * alloc_memblock ( size_t size, size_t align, size_t offset ) {
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 	size_t post_size;
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 	struct memory_block *pre;
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 	struct memory_block *post;
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+	unsigned int discarded;
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 	void *ptr;
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 	/* Sanity checks */
@@ -371,7 +372,13 @@ void * alloc_memblock ( size_t size, size_t align, size_t offset ) {
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 		}
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 		/* Try discarding some cached data to free up memory */
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-		if ( ! discard_cache() ) {
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+		DBGC ( &heap, "Attempting discard for %#zx (aligned %#zx+%zx), "
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+		       "used %zdkB\n", size, align, offset, ( usedmem >> 10 ) );
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+		valgrind_make_blocks_noaccess();
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+		discarded = discard_cache();
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+		valgrind_make_blocks_defined();
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+		check_blocks();
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+		if ( ! discarded ) {
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 			/* Nothing available to discard */
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 			DBGC ( &heap, "Failed to allocate %#zx (aligned "
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 			       "%#zx)\n", size, align );

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