[php-src] PR #23366: Validate large run map entries instead of assuming them

From: Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:12:29 +0000
Subject: [php-src] PR #23366: Validate large run map entries instead of assuming them
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Pull Request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/23366 Author: jvoisin Three places dispatch on the page map entry of a pointer, and reach the large-run case by elimination, with the assumption written down as a comment rather than checked: if (EXPECTED(info & ZEND_MM_IS_SRUN)) { ... } else /* if (info & ZEND_MM_IS_LRUN) */ { The assumption does not always hold: when ZEND_MM_IS_FRUN is 0 and zend_mm_free_pages_ex() zeroes chunk->map[page_num], a pointer to a large run that has already been freed has info == 0, so it fails the SRUN test, and falls into the large-run branch. There, ZEND_MM_LRUN_PAGES(0) is 0, and the three callers quietly degrade: - zend_mm_free_heap() frees a run of zero pages, i.e. a double free of a large block is accepted and does nothing at all. - zend_mm_size() reports a block size of 0. - zend_mm_realloc_heap() takes old_size 0 and reallocates from there. A large-block double free or a use of a freed pointer is silently absorbed by the allocator instead of being a hard failure. This commit promotes the comment to a real ZEND_MM_CHECK() in all three. The value is already in a register at that point, so it costs a test and a branch. This was checked under GDB by allocating a large block, freeing it, and then reusing the pointer. Before, _efree() returned normally, _zend_mem_block_size() returned 0 and _erealloc() returned a new pointer. After this commit, each of the three aborts with "zend_mm_heap corrupted". Amusingly, the two comments naming ZEND_MM_IS_LARGE_RUN referred to a macro that does not exist: the real name is ZEND_MM_IS_LRUN.

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