The following code takes an input string and puts it on the heap, then prints it:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
char input[50] = "BLA BLBA BLA BLA DJAIO JASJDIOA";
char *value = (char*) calloc(1, sizeof(char));
value[0] = '\0';
for (int i = 0; i < strlen(input); i++) {
value = (char*) realloc(value, sizeof(char) * (strlen(value) + 2));
if (value == NULL)
return 1;
value[strlen(value)] = input[i];
value[strlen(value) + 1] = '\0';
}
printf("%s\n", value);
free(value);
return 0;
}
Works perfectly, but from some reason it gives these errors from valgrind:
==109423== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==109423== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==109423== Using Valgrind-3.11.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==109423== Command: ./write_test.o ==109423== ==109423== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==109423== at 0x4C2A9E8: strlen (vg_replace_strmem.c:454) ==109423== by 0x400722: main (in /home/me/testing/write_test.o) ==109423== ==109423== Invalid write of size 1 ==109423== at 0x40072E: main (in /home/me/testing/write_test.o) ==109423== Address 0x51f4092 is 0 bytes after a block of size 2 alloc'd ==109423== at 0x4C29B78: realloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:785) ==109423== by 0x4006E5: main (in /home/me/testing/write_test.o) ==109423== ==109423== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==109423== at 0x4C2A9E8: strlen (vg_replace_strmem.c:454) ==109423== by 0x4006D2: main (in /home/me/testing/write_test.o) ==109423== ==109423== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==109423== at 0x4C2A9E8: strlen (vg_replace_strmem.c:454) ==109423== by 0x400703: main (in /home/me/testing/write_test.o) ==109423== ==109423== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==109423== at 0x4C2AA08: __GI_strlen (vg_replace_strmem.c:455) ==109423== by 0x4E9FEEB: puts (ioputs.c:36) ==109423== by 0x40075B: main (in /home/me/testing/write_test.o) ==109423== ==109423== ==109423== HEAP SUMMARY: ==109423== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==109423== total heap usage: 32 allocs, 32 frees, 528 bytes allocated ==109423== ==109423== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible ==109423== ==109423== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==109423== Use --track-origins=yes to see where uninitialised values come from ==109423== ERROR SUMMARY: 123 errors from 5 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
What invalid write of size 1? What Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value?
The problem is here:
value[strlen(value)] = input[i];
after the previous line, value doesn't point anymore to a NUL terminated string, therefore the strlen on the following line will return an indeterminate value:
value[strlen(value) + 1] = '\0';
You need this:
...
int len = strlen(value);
value[len] = input[i];
value[len + 1] = '\0';
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