If we are out of memory then strdup may return NULL, and passing NULL to syslog may cause a crash.
Avoid this by using `caml_stat_strdup` which will raise an OCaml out of memory exception instead. This then needs to be paired with caml_stat_free. Signed-off-by: Edwin Török <edvin.to...@citrix.com> --- Reason for inclusion in 4.17: - fixes a bug in out of memory situations Changes since v2: - new in v3 --- tools/ocaml/xenstored/syslog_stubs.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/ocaml/xenstored/syslog_stubs.c b/tools/ocaml/xenstored/syslog_stubs.c index 4e5e49b557..4ad85c8eb5 100644 --- a/tools/ocaml/xenstored/syslog_stubs.c +++ b/tools/ocaml/xenstored/syslog_stubs.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include <syslog.h> #include <string.h> +#include <caml/fail.h> #include <caml/mlvalues.h> #include <caml/memory.h> #include <caml/alloc.h> @@ -35,14 +36,16 @@ static int __syslog_facility_table[] = { value stub_syslog(value facility, value level, value msg) { CAMLparam3(facility, level, msg); - const char *c_msg = strdup(String_val(msg)); + char *c_msg = strdup(String_val(msg)); int c_facility = __syslog_facility_table[Int_val(facility)] | __syslog_level_table[Int_val(level)]; + if ( !c_msg ) + caml_raise_out_of_memory(); caml_enter_blocking_section(); syslog(c_facility, "%s", c_msg); caml_leave_blocking_section(); - free((void*)c_msg); + free(c_msg); CAMLreturn(Val_unit); } -- 2.34.1