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-rw-r--r--mpi/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--mpi/mpicoder.c9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mpi/ChangeLog b/mpi/ChangeLog
index 238f69f31..0a2d05b64 100644
--- a/mpi/ChangeLog
+++ b/mpi/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-09-20 Werner Koch <[email protected]>
+
+ * mpicoder.c (do_get_buffer): Avoid zero length allocation.
+ Checked that all callers behave properly when NBYTES returns 0 as
+ the length of the allocated buffer.
+
2002-09-10 Werner Koch <[email protected]>
* mpi-bit.c (mpi_normalize): Replaced the check for protected by
diff --git a/mpi/mpicoder.c b/mpi/mpicoder.c
index f796888c8..8cb1538c0 100644
--- a/mpi/mpicoder.c
+++ b/mpi/mpicoder.c
@@ -332,12 +332,15 @@ do_get_buffer( MPI a, unsigned *nbytes, int *sign, int force_secure )
byte *p, *buffer;
mpi_limb_t alimb;
int i;
+ unsigned int n;
if( sign )
*sign = a->sign;
- *nbytes = a->nlimbs * BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
- p = buffer = force_secure || mpi_is_secure(a) ? m_alloc_secure( *nbytes)
- : m_alloc( *nbytes );
+ *nbytes = n = a->nlimbs * BYTES_PER_MPI_LIMB;
+ if (!n)
+ n++; /* avoid zero length allocation */
+ p = buffer = force_secure || mpi_is_secure(a) ? m_alloc_secure(n)
+ : m_alloc(n);
for(i=a->nlimbs-1; i >= 0; i-- ) {
alimb = a->d[i];