memory allocated by libcurl must be freed with curl_free() and vice versa,
memory allocated by the tool itself must be freed with curlx_free().
- dynbuf: free libcurl data with curl_free()
- tool_operate: make sure we get URL using the right memory
- tool_operhlp: free libcurl memory with curl_free()
- tool_operate: free curl_maprintf() pointer with curl_free
- var: data from curlx_base64_decode needs curlx_free
- tool_operate: fix memory juggling in etag handling
- tool_cb_hdr: fix memory area mixups
- tool_operate: another mixup in etag management
- tool_cb_hdr: more memory mixup fixes
- tool_cfgable.c: document some details
- tool_help: show global-mem-debug in -V output
Closes#21099
- fix internal macro `AN_APPLE_OS` reused between sources without
resetting it. It may potentially have left the system sha256
function unused.
- fix to define `WOLFSSL_OPTIONS_IGNORE_SYS` so that it always applies
to wolfSSL headers, also during feature detection.
- md4, md5, sha256: simplify fallback logic.
- delete 20+ unused macros.
- scope or move macros to avoid `-Wunused-macros` warnings.
- examples: delete unused code.
The warning detects macros defined but not used within the same C
source. It does not warn for macros defined in headers. It also works
with unity builds, but to a lesser extent.
Closes#20593
- de-dupe lib/src strdup/memdup functions into curlx.
- introduce `CURLX_STRDUP_LOW()` for mapping `strdup()`, and to do it at
one place within the code, in `curl_setup.h`.
- tests/server: use `curlx_strdup()`. (Also to fix building without
a system `strdup()`.)
- curlx/curlx.h: shorten and tidy up.
- adjust Windows build path to not need `HAVE_STRDUP`.
- build: stop detecting `HAVE_STRDUP` on Windows.
Closes#20497
And a few variables around.
There remain cases where the accepted pointer is const, yet the returned
pointer is written to.
Partly addressing (glibc 2.43):
```
* For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr,
strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return
pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that
return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is
a pointer to a const-qualified type.
```
Ref: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-01/msg00005.html
Reported-by: Rudi Heitbaum
Ref: #20420Closes#20421
Before this patch curl used the C preprocessor to override standard
memory allocation symbols: malloc, calloc, strdup, realloc, free.
The goal of these is to replace them with curl's debug wrappers in
`CURLDEBUG` builds, another was to replace them with the wrappers
calling user-defined allocators in libcurl. This solution needed a bunch
of workarounds to avoid breaking external headers: it relied on include
order to do the overriding last. For "unity" builds it needed to reset
overrides before external includes. Also in test apps, which are always
built as single source files. It also needed the `(symbol)` trick
to avoid overrides in some places. This would still not fix cases where
the standard symbols were macros. It was also fragile and difficult
to figure out which was the actual function behind an alloc or free call
in a specific piece of code. This in turn caused bugs where the wrong
allocator was accidentally called.
To avoid these problems, this patch replaces this solution with
`curlx_`-prefixed allocator macros, and mapping them _once_ to either
the libcurl wrappers, the debug wrappers or the standard ones, matching
the rest of the code in libtests.
This concludes the long journey to avoid redefining standard functions
in the curl codebase.
Note: I did not update `packages/OS400/*.c` sources. They did not
`#include` `curl_setup.h`, `curl_memory.h` or `memdebug.h`, meaning
the overrides were never applied to them. This may or may not have been
correct. For now I suppressed the direct use of standard allocators
via a local `.checksrc`. Probably they (except for `curlcl.c`) should be
updated to include `curl_setup.h` and use the `curlx_` macros.
This patch changes mappings in two places:
- `lib/curl_threads.c` in libtests: Before this patch it mapped to
libcurl allocators. After, it maps to standard allocators, like
the rest of libtests code.
- `units`: before this patch it mapped to standard allocators. After, it
maps to libcurl allocators.
Also:
- drop all position-dependent `curl_memory.h` and `memdebug.h` includes,
and delete the now unnecessary headers.
- rename `Curl_tcsdup` macro to `curlx_tcsdup` and define like the other
allocators.
- map `curlx_strdup()` to `_strdup()` on Windows (was: `strdup()`).
To fix warnings silenced via `_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE`.
- multibyte: map `curlx_convert_*()` to `_strdup()` on Windows
(was: `strdup()`).
- src: do not reuse the `strdup` name for the local replacement.
- lib509: call `_strdup()` on Windows (was: `strdup()`).
- test1132: delete test obsoleted by this patch.
- CHECKSRC.md: update text for `SNPRINTF`.
- checksrc: ban standard allocator symbols.
Follow-up to b12da22db1#18866
Follow-up to db98daab05#18844
Follow-up to 4deea9396b#18814
Follow-up to 9678ff5b1b#18776
Follow-up to 10bac43b87#18774
Follow-up to 20142f5d06#18634
Follow-up to bf7375ecc5#18503
Follow-up to 9863599d69#18502
Follow-up to 3bb5e58c10#17827Closes#19626
Change `inputbuff` parameter from `const char *` to `const uint8_t *` to
reflect the binary nature of the input bytes. Half the code was casting
unsigned char to signed already in calling.
Closes#19722
Also:
- tests/server: replace local `sstrerror()` with `curlx_strerror()`.
- tests/server: show the error code next to the string, where missing.
- curlx: use `curl_msnprintf()` when building for src and tests.
(units was already using it.)
- lib: drop unused includes found along the way.
- curlx_strerror(): avoid compiler warning (and another similar one):
```
In file included from servers.c:14:
../../lib/../../lib/curlx/strerr.c: In function ‘curlx_strerror’:
../../lib/../../lib/curlx/strerr.c:328:32: error: ‘snprintf’ output may be truncated before the last format character [-Werror=format-truncation=]
328 | SNPRINTF(buf, buflen, "%s", msg);
| ^
../../lib/../../lib/curlx/strerr.c:47:18: note: ‘snprintf’ output 1 or more bytes (assuming 2) into a destination of size 1
47 | #define SNPRINTF snprintf
| ^
../../lib/../../lib/curlx/strerr.c:328:7: note: in expansion of macro ‘SNPRINTF’
328 | SNPRINTF(buf, buflen, "%s", msg);
| ^~~~~~~~
```
Follow-up to 45438c8d6f#18823Closes#18840
By introducing wrappers for them in the curlx namespace:
`curlx_fopen()`, `curlx_fdopen()`, `curlx_fclose()`.
The undefine/redefine/`(function)()` methods broke on systems
implementing these functions as macros. E.g. AIX 32-bit's `fopen()`.
Also:
- rename `lib/fopen.*` to `lib/curl_fopen.*` (for `Curl_fopen()`)
to make room for the newly added `curlx/fopen.h`.
- curlx: move file-related functions from `multibyte.c` to `fopen.c`.
- tests/server: stop using the curl-specific `fopen()` implementation
on Windows. Unicode isn't used by runtests, and it isn't critical to
run tests on longs path. It can be re-enabled if this becomes
necessary, or if the wrapper receives a feature that's critical for
test servers.
Reported-by: Andrew Kirillov
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/18510#issuecomment-3274393640
Follow-up to bf7375ecc5#18503
Follow-up to 9863599d69#18502
Follow-up to 3bb5e58c10#17827Closes#18634
The GlobalConfig only exists in a single instance and it has worked like
this since the dawn of time. It is about time we stop passing around
pointers to what was already essentially a global object and instead
just use a... global.
It simplifies things.
Closes#18213
To make all src and test code refer to curlx headers the same way.
Also:
- src: move `curlx.h` include to `tool_setup.h`.
- src/tool_setup.h: drop stray `curlx/timeval.h`.
- servers: de-duplicate `curlx.h` and `curl_setup.h` includes.
- libtests, units: drop stray curlx sub-headers in favor of
`<curlx/curlx.h>`.
- tests: include `curlx.h` with `<>` instead of `""`. To match
other parts of the codebase.
Closes#17680
Move curlx_ functions into its own subdir.
The idea is to use the curlx_ prefix proper on these functions, and use
these same function names both in tool, lib and test suite source code.
Stop the previous special #define setup for curlx_ names.
The printf defines are now done for the library alone. Tests no longer
use the printf defines. The tool code sets its own defines. The printf
functions are not curlx, they are publicly available.
The strcase defines are not curlx_ functions and should not be used by
tool or server code.
dynbuf, warnless, base64, strparse, timeval, timediff are now proper
curlx functions.
When libcurl is built statically, the functions from the library can be
used as-is. The key is then that the functions must work as-is, without
having to be recompiled for use in tool/tests. This avoids symbol
collisions - when libcurl is built statically, we use those functions
directly when building the tool/tests. When libcurl is shared, we
build/link them separately for the tool/tests.
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
Closes#17253
The issues found fell into these categories, with the applied fixes:
- const was accidentally stripped.
Adjust code to not cast or cast with const.
- const/volatile missing from arguments, local variables.
Constify arguments or variables, adjust/delete casts. Small code
changes in a few places.
- const must be stripped because an API dependency requires it.
Strip `const` with `CURL_UNCONST()` macro to silence the warning out
of our control. These happen at API boundaries. Sometimes they depend
on dependency version, which this patch handles as necessary. Also
enable const support for the zlib API, using `ZLIB_CONST`. Supported
by zlib 1.2.5.2 and newer.
- const must be stripped because a curl API requires it.
Strip `const` with `CURL_UNCONST()` macro to silence the warning out
of our immediate control. For example we promise to send a non-const
argument to a callback, though the data is const internally.
- other cases where we may avoid const stripping by code changes.
Also silenced with `CURL_UNCONST()`.
- there are 3 places where `CURL_UNCONST()` is cast again to const.
To silence this type of warning:
```
lib/vquic/curl_osslq.c:1015:29: error: to be safe all intermediate
pointers in cast from 'unsigned char **' to 'const unsigned char **'
must be 'const' qualified [-Werror=cast-qual]
lib/cf-socket.c:734:32: error: to be safe all intermediate pointers in
cast from 'char **' to 'const char **' must be 'const' qualified
[-Werror=cast-qual]
```
There may be a better solution, but I couldn't find it.
These cases are handled in separate subcommits, but without further
markup.
If you see a `-Wcast-qual` warning in curl, we appreciate your report
about it.
Closes#16142
Verified in test 455 and 487.
If the provided string cannot be base64-decoded, it will instead use
"[64dec-fail]" (without the quotes).
Documented
Ref: #16288Closes#16330
Follow-up to 40c264db61 after discussions on IRC.
The new style is
name[0-99]=contents
and
name[0-99]@filename
A) This does not cause the same problems with old curl versions trying
the new syntax as this way will cause old curls just fail with syntax
error and not risk using the wrong file.
B) Adds the same byte range support for "normal" assigns, which the
previous syntax did not. Thus lets a user get a partial content of a
variable etc.
Added test 790 and 791 to verify non-file assigns with ranges.
Closes#15862
Allowing --variable read a portion of provided files, makes curl work on
partial files for any options that accepts strings. Like --data and others.
The byte offset is provided within brackets, with a semicolon separator
like: --variable name@file;[100-200]"
Inspired by #14479
Assisted-by: Manuel Einfalt
Test 784 - 789. Documentation update provided.
Closes#15739
Fixing issue #15580 by renaming struct var to tool_var to avoid conflict
with the same structure name defined in AIX system headers.
Fixes#15580Closes#15581
Sources used `lib/curlx.h` with both `ENABLE_CURLX_PRINTF` set and unset
before including it.
In a cmake "unity" batch where the first included source had it unset,
the next sources did not get the macros requested with
`ENABLE_CURLX_PRINTF` because `lib/curl.x` had already been included
without them.
Fix it by by making the macros enabled permanently and globally for
internal sources, and dropping `ENABLE_CURLX_PRINTF`.
This came up while testing unity builds with smaller batches. The full,
default unity build where all `src` is bundled up in a single unit, was
not affected.
Fixes:
```
$ cmake -B build -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD_BATCH_SIZE=15
$ make -C build
...
curl/src/tool_getparam.c: In function ‘getparameter’:
curl/src/tool_getparam.c:2409:11: error: implicit declaration of function ‘msnprintf’; did you mean ‘vsnprintf’? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
2409 | msnprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T "-",
| ^~~~~~~~~
| vsnprintf
curl/src/tool_getparam.c:2409:11: warning: nested extern declaration of ‘msnprintf’ [-Wnested-externs]
[...]
```
Reported-by: Daniel Stenberg
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/14626#issuecomment-2301663491Closes#14632
Based on the standards and guidelines we use for our documentation.
- expand contractions (they're => they are etc)
- host name = > hostname
- file name => filename
- user name = username
- man page => manpage
- run-time => runtime
- set-up => setup
- back-end => backend
- a HTTP => an HTTP
- Two spaces after a period => one space after period
Closes#14073
Like when trying to import an environment variable that does not exist.
Also fix a bug for reading env variables when there is a default value
set.
Bug: https://curl.se/mail/archive-2024-02/0008.html
Reported-by: Brett Buddin
Add test 462 to verify.
Closes#12862
GCC 14 introduces a new -Walloc-size included in -Wextra which gives:
```
src/tool_operate.c: In function ‘add_per_transfer’:
src/tool_operate.c:213:5: warning: allocation of insufficient size ‘1’ for type ‘struct per_transfer’ with size ‘480’ [-Walloc-size]
213 | p = calloc(sizeof(struct per_transfer), 1);
| ^
src/var.c: In function ‘addvariable’:
src/var.c:361:5: warning: allocation of insufficient size ‘1’ for type ‘struct var’ with size ‘32’ [-Walloc-size]
361 | p = calloc(sizeof(struct var), 1);
| ^
```
The calloc prototype is:
```
void *calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size);
```
So, just swap the number of members and size arguments to match the
prototype, as we're initialising 1 struct of size `sizeof(struct
...)`. GCC then sees we're not doing anything wrong.
Closes#12292
- Error on missing input file for --data, --data-binary,
--data-urlencode, --header, --variable, --write-out.
Prior to this change if a user of the curl tool specified an input file
for one of the above options and that file could not be opened then it
would be treated as zero length data instead of an error. For example, a
POST using `--data @filenametypo` would cause a zero length POST which
is probably not what the user intended.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/11677
Expansions whose output starts with NUL were being expanded to the empty
string, and not being recognised as values that contain a NUL byte, and
should error.
Closes#11694
Add support for command line variables. Set variables with --variable
name=content or --variable name@file (where "file" can be stdin if set
to a single dash (-)).
Variable content is expanded in option parameters using "{{name}}"
(without the quotes) if the option name is prefixed with
"--expand-". This gets the contents of the variable "name" inserted, or
a blank if the name does not exist as a variable. Insert "{{" verbatim
in the string by prefixing it with a backslash, like "\\{{".
Import an environment variable with --variable %name. It makes curl exit
with an error if the environment variable is not set. It can also rather
get a default value if the variable does not exist, using =content or
@file like shown above.
Example: get the USER environment variable into the URL:
--variable %USER
--expand-url = "https://example.com/api/{{USER}}/method"
When expanding variables, curl supports a set of functions that can make
the variable contents more convenient to use. It can trim leading and
trailing white space with "trim", output the contents as a JSON quoted
string with "json", URL encode it with "url" and base 64 encode it with
"b64". To apply functions to a variable expansion, add them colon
separated to the right side of the variable. They are then performed in
a left to right order.
Example: get the contents of a file called $HOME/.secret into a variable
called "fix". Make sure that the content is trimmed and percent-encoded
sent as POST data:
--variable %HOME=/home/default
--expand-variable fix@{{HOME}}/.secret
--expand-data "{{fix:trim:url}}"
https://example.com/
Documented. Many new test cases.
Co-brainstormed-by: Emanuele Torre
Assisted-by: Jat Satiro
Closes#11346
