Curl_fillreadbuffer: avoid double-free trailer buf on error

Reviewed-by: Jay Satiro
Reported-by: Thomas Vegas

Closes #4307

3 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/lib/http.c b/lib/http.c
index d352d139d..28d1fa607 100644
--- a/lib/http.c
+++ b/lib/http.c
@@ -1146,10 +1146,14 @@ Curl_send_buffer *Curl_add_buffer_init(void)
  */
 void Curl_add_buffer_free(Curl_send_buffer **inp)
 {
-  Curl_send_buffer *in = *inp;
-  if(in) /* deal with NULL input */
+  Curl_send_buffer *in;
+  if(!inp)
+    return;
+  in = *inp;
+  if(in) { /* deal with NULL input */
     free(in->buffer);
-  free(in);
+    free(in);
+  }
   *inp = NULL;
 }
 
@@ -1720,7 +1724,7 @@ enum proxy_use {
    will return an error code if one of the headers is
    not formatted correctly */
 CURLcode Curl_http_compile_trailers(struct curl_slist *trailers,
-                                    Curl_send_buffer *buffer,
+                                    Curl_send_buffer **buffer,
                                     struct Curl_easy *handle)
 {
   char *ptr = NULL;
@@ -1746,7 +1750,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_http_compile_trailers(struct curl_slist *trailers,
     /* only add correctly formatted trailers */
     ptr = strchr(trailers->data, ':');
     if(ptr && *(ptr + 1) == ' ') {
-      result = Curl_add_bufferf(&buffer, "%s%s", trailers->data,
+      result = Curl_add_bufferf(buffer, "%s%s", trailers->data,
                                 endofline_native);
       if(result)
         return result;
@@ -1755,7 +1759,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_http_compile_trailers(struct curl_slist *trailers,
       infof(handle, "Malformatted trailing header ! Skipping trailer.");
     trailers = trailers->next;
   }
-  result = Curl_add_buffer(&buffer, endofline_network,
+  result = Curl_add_buffer(buffer, endofline_network,
                            strlen(endofline_network));
   return result;
 }
diff --git a/lib/http.h b/lib/http.h
index 5bacb1754..f0ddec759 100644
--- a/lib/http.h
+++ b/lib/http.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_add_custom_headers(struct connectdata *conn,
                                  bool is_connect,
                                  Curl_send_buffer *req_buffer);
 CURLcode Curl_http_compile_trailers(struct curl_slist *trailers,
-                                    Curl_send_buffer *buffer,
+                                    Curl_send_buffer **buffer,
                                     struct Curl_easy *handle);
 
 /* protocol-specific functions set up to be called by the main engine */
diff --git a/lib/transfer.c b/lib/transfer.c
index 7e57fbe03..ef0d80638 100644
--- a/lib/transfer.c
+++ b/lib/transfer.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_fillreadbuffer(struct connectdata *conn, size_t bytes,
 #ifndef CURL_DISABLE_HTTP
   if(data->state.trailers_state == TRAILERS_INITIALIZED) {
     struct curl_slist *trailers = NULL;
-    CURLcode c;
+    CURLcode result;
     int trailers_ret_code;
 
     /* at this point we already verified that the callback exists
@@ -195,17 +195,18 @@ CURLcode Curl_fillreadbuffer(struct connectdata *conn, size_t bytes,
                                                    data->set.trailer_data);
     Curl_set_in_callback(data, false);
     if(trailers_ret_code == CURL_TRAILERFUNC_OK) {
-      c = Curl_http_compile_trailers(trailers, data->state.trailers_buf, data);
+      result = Curl_http_compile_trailers(trailers, &data->state.trailers_buf,
+                                          data);
     }
     else {
       failf(data, "operation aborted by trailing headers callback");
       *nreadp = 0;
-      c = CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK;
+      result = CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK;
     }
-    if(c != CURLE_OK) {
+    if(result) {
       Curl_add_buffer_free(&data->state.trailers_buf);
       curl_slist_free_all(trailers);
-      return c;
+      return result;
     }
     infof(data, "Successfully compiled trailers.\r\n");
     curl_slist_free_all(trailers);