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Message-ID: <20160131163102.GX9621@port70.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:31:03 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: [PATCH] fix malloc_usable_size for NULL input

the linux man page specifies malloc_usable_size(0) to return 0 and
this is the semantics other implementations follow (jemalloc).
reported by Alexander Monakov.
---
 src/malloc/malloc_usable_size.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/malloc/malloc_usable_size.c b/src/malloc/malloc_usable_size.c
index 8cccd9d..6743ea7 100644
--- a/src/malloc/malloc_usable_size.c
+++ b/src/malloc/malloc_usable_size.c
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ struct chunk {
 
 size_t malloc_usable_size(void *p)
 {
-	return CHUNK_SIZE(MEM_TO_CHUNK(p)) - OVERHEAD;
+	return p ? CHUNK_SIZE(MEM_TO_CHUNK(p)) - OVERHEAD : 0;
 }
-- 
2.7.0

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