[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/2] malloc: fix realloc wrong copy size

[Xueming Li]

In rte_realloc, if the old element has pad and need to allocate a new
memory, the padding size was not deducted, so more data was copied to
new data area.

Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at mellanox.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
index 413e4aa004..d6026a2b17 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ rte_realloc_socket(void *ptr, size_t size, unsigned int align, int socket)
 	void *new_ptr = rte_malloc_socket(NULL, size, align, socket);
 	if (new_ptr == NULL)
 		return NULL;
-	const unsigned old_size = elem->size - MALLOC_ELEM_OVERHEAD;
+	/* elem: |pad|data_elem|data|trailer| */
+	const size_t old_size = elem->size - elem->pad - MALLOC_ELEM_OVERHEAD;
 	rte_memcpy(new_ptr, ptr, old_size < size ? old_size : size);
 	rte_free(ptr);
 
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2.17.1