liblzma: Avoid memcpy(NULL, foo, 0) because it is undefined behavior.

I should have always known this but I didn't. Here is an example
as a reminder to myself:

    int mycopy(void *dest, void *src, size_t n)
    {
        memcpy(dest, src, n);
        return dest == NULL;
    }

In the example, a compiler may assume that dest != NULL because
passing NULL to memcpy() would be undefined behavior. Testing
with GCC 8.2.1, mycopy(NULL, NULL, 0) returns 1 with -O0 and -O1.
With -O2 the return value is 0 because the compiler infers that
dest cannot be NULL because it was already used with memcpy()
and thus the test for NULL gets optimized out.

In liblzma, if a null-pointer was passed to memcpy(), there were
no checks for NULL *after* the memcpy() call, so I cautiously
suspect that it shouldn't have caused bad behavior in practice,
but it's hard to be sure, and the problematic cases had to be
fixed anyway.

Thanks to Jeffrey Walton.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/liblzma/common/common.c b/src/liblzma/common/common.c
index 1399b928..18453ae0 100644
--- a/src/liblzma/common/common.c
+++ b/src/liblzma/common/common.c
@@ -99,7 +99,11 @@ lzma_bufcpy(const uint8_t *restrict in, size_t *restrict in_pos,
 	const size_t out_avail = out_size - *out_pos;
 	const size_t copy_size = my_min(in_avail, out_avail);
 
-	memcpy(out + *out_pos, in + *in_pos, copy_size);
+	// Call memcpy() only if there is something to copy. If there is
+	// nothing to copy, in or out might be NULL and then the memcpy()
+	// call would trigger undefined behavior.
+	if (copy_size > 0)
+		memcpy(out + *out_pos, in + *in_pos, copy_size);
 
 	*in_pos += copy_size;
 	*out_pos += copy_size;