shm: Make sure to not allocate blocks larger than the shared mem area

Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681359

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/sys/shm/shmalloc.c b/sys/shm/shmalloc.c
index 67bae732f..62c2bc751 100644
--- a/sys/shm/shmalloc.c
+++ b/sys/shm/shmalloc.c
@@ -102,13 +102,11 @@ shm_alloc_space_alloc_block (ShmAllocSpace * self, unsigned long size)
     prev_item = item;
   }
 
-  /* Did not find space before an existing block */
-  if (self->blocks && !item) {
-    /* Return NULL if there is no big enough space, otherwise, there is space
-     * at the end */
-    if (self->size - prev_end_offset < size)
-      return NULL;
-  }
+  /* Return NULL if there is no big enough space, otherwise, there is space
+   * at the end */
+  assert (prev_end_offset <= self->size);
+  if (!item && self->size - prev_end_offset < size)
+    return NULL;
 
   block = spalloc_new (ShmAllocBlock);
   memset (block, 0, sizeof (ShmAllocBlock));