bug#19784: build fails on make-prime-list when asan is enabled

[Pádraig Brady]

On 05/02/15 15:21, Yury Usishchev wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> We tried to build coreutils with address sanitizer enabled and 
> encountered an error:
> 
>    GEN      src/primes.h
> ==12657== ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow
> 
> This can be reproduced on git master using gcc-4.8 or gcc-4.9 by
> git clone
> export CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address"
> ./bootstrap
> ./configure
> make
> 
> and is caused by line
> src/make-prime-list.c:214:      while (i < size && sieve[++i] == 0)
> 
> When 'i' reaches 'size-1' it gets incremented and then 
> (unallocated)memory is accessed.
> 
> I attached patch that can fix this issue.

Oh nice one. That was not rerun when I ran my checks.
The released tools (still) pass with -fsanitize=address.

How about this fix instead?  I'll push in your name if
you're ok with it.

diff --git a/src/make-prime-list.c b/src/make-prime-list.c
index 68c972a..69b91e8 100644
--- a/src/make-prime-list.c
+++ b/src/make-prime-list.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
       for (j = (p*p - 3)/2; j < size; j+= p)
         sieve[j] = 0;

-      while (i < size && sieve[++i] == 0)
+      while (++i < size && sieve[i] == 0)
         ;
     }