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* [Large allocations](#large-allocations)
* [Memory tagging](#memory-tagging)
* [API extensions](#api-extensions)
* [Stats](#stats)
* [System calls](#system-calls)
## Introduction
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the size class regions.
* `CONFIG_N_ARENA`: `1` (default) to control the number of arenas
* `CONFIG_STATS`: `false` (default) to control whether stats on allocation /
deallocation count and active allocations are tracked. This is currently only
exposed via the mallinfo APIs on Android.
deallocation count and active allocations are tracked. See the [section on
stats](#stats) for more details.
* `CONFIG_EXTENDED_SIZE_CLASSES`: `true` (default) to control whether small
size class go up to 128kiB instead of the minimum requirement for avoiding
memory waste of 16kiB. The option to extend it even further will be offered
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allocations based on calculating the size class region. This function is safe
to use from signal handlers already.
## Stats
If stats are enabled, hardened\_malloc keeps tracks allocator statistics in
order to provide implementations of `mallinfo` and `malloc_info`.
On Android, `mallinfo` is used for [mallinfo-based garbage collection
triggering](https://developer.android.com/preview/features#mallinfo) so
hardened\_malloc enables `CONFIG_STATS` by default. The `malloc_info`
implementation on Android is the standard one in Bionic, with the information
is provided to Bionic via Android's internal extended `mallinfo` API with
support for arenas and size class bins. This means the `malloc_info` output is
fully compatible, including still having `jemalloc-1` as the version of the
data format to retain compatibility with existing tooling.
On non-Android Linux, `mallinfo` has zeroed fields even with `CONFIG_STATS`
enabled because glibc `mallinfo` is inherently broken. It defines the fields as
`int` instead of `size_t`, resulting in undefined signed overflows. It also
misuses the fields and provides a strange, idiosyncratic set of values rather
than following the SVID/XPG `mallinfo` definition. The `malloc_info` function
is still provided, with the same format as Android but with the version set to
`hardened_malloc-1`. The data format may be changed in the future.
As an example, consider the follow program from the hardened\_malloc tests:
```c
#include <pthread.h>
#include <malloc.h>
__attribute__((optimize(0)))
void leak_memory(void) {
(void)malloc(1024 * 1024 * 1024);
(void)malloc(16);
(void)malloc(32);
(void)malloc(4096);
}
void *do_work(void *p) {
leak_memory();
return NULL;
}
int main(void) {
pthread_t thread[4];
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
pthread_create(&thread[i], NULL, do_work, NULL);
}
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
pthread_join(thread[i], NULL);
}
malloc_info(0, stdout);
}
```
This produces the following output when piped through `xmllint --format -`:
```xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<malloc version="hardened_malloc-1">
<heap nr="0">
<bin nr="2" size="32">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>4096</slab_allocated>
<allocated>32</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="3" size="48">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>4096</slab_allocated>
<allocated>48</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="13" size="320">
<nmalloc>4</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>20480</slab_allocated>
<allocated>1280</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="29" size="5120">
<nmalloc>2</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>40960</slab_allocated>
<allocated>10240</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="45" size="81920">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>81920</slab_allocated>
<allocated>81920</allocated>
</bin>
</heap>
<heap nr="1">
<bin nr="2" size="32">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>4096</slab_allocated>
<allocated>32</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="3" size="48">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>4096</slab_allocated>
<allocated>48</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="29" size="5120">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>40960</slab_allocated>
<allocated>5120</allocated>
</bin>
</heap>
<heap nr="2">
<bin nr="2" size="32">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>4096</slab_allocated>
<allocated>32</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="3" size="48">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>4096</slab_allocated>
<allocated>48</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="29" size="5120">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>40960</slab_allocated>
<allocated>5120</allocated>
</bin>
</heap>
<heap nr="3">
<bin nr="2" size="32">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>4096</slab_allocated>
<allocated>32</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="3" size="48">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>4096</slab_allocated>
<allocated>48</allocated>
</bin>
<bin nr="29" size="5120">
<nmalloc>1</nmalloc>
<ndalloc>0</ndalloc>
<slab_allocated>40960</slab_allocated>
<allocated>5120</allocated>
</bin>
</heap>
<heap nr="4">
<allocated_large>4294967296</allocated_large>
</heap>
</malloc>
```
The heap entries correspond to the arenas. Unlike jemalloc, hardened\_malloc
doesn't handle large allocations within the arenas, so it presents those in the
`malloc_info` statistics as a separate arena dedicated to large allocations.
For example, with 4 arenas enabled, there will be a 5th arena in the statistics
for the large allocations.
The `nmalloc` / `ndalloc` fields are 64-bit integers tracking allocation and
deallocation count. These are defined as wrapping on overflow, per the jemalloc
implementation.
See the [section on size classes](#size-classes) to map the size class bin
number to the corresponding size class. The bin index begins at 0, mapping to
the 0 byte size class, followed by 1 for the 16 bytes, 2 for 32 bytes, etc. and
large allocations are treated as one group.
## System calls
This is intended to aid with creating system call whitelists via seccomp-bpf