gdb_server: prevent false positive valgrind report

[openocd.git] / src / server / gdb_server.c

diff --git a/src/server/gdb_server.c b/src/server/gdb_server.c
index c52176911dfc2b8567bd0d018ceea5f5c3fc10d6..2acebe83968eb0d224b7e6273a30509d72724967 100644 (file)
--- a/src/server/gdb_server.c
+++ b/src/server/gdb_server.c
@@ -2442,7 +2442,11 @@ static int gdb_get_thread_list_chunk(struct target *target, char **thread_list,
        else
                transfer_type = 'l';
 
-       *chunk = malloc(length + 2);
+       *chunk = malloc(length + 2 + 3);
+    /* Allocating extra 3 bytes prevents false positive valgrind report
+        * of strlen(chunk) word access:
+        * Invalid read of size 4
+        * Address 0x4479934 is 44 bytes inside a block of size 45 alloc'd */
        if (*chunk == NULL) {
                LOG_ERROR("Unable to allocate memory");
                return ERROR_FAIL;