Frantisek Sumsal a56d7db48f alloc-util: make malloc_sizeof_safe() compatible with clang's _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3
Turns out that clang's interprocedural analysis is quite smart and can
look through our expand_to_usable() trick, which then causes crashes
with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3.

clang's interprocedural analysis can see that expand_to_usable() simply
returns its first argument, so it replaces all uses of the return value
with that argument (the original realloc() result). This effectively
bypasses expand_to_usable()'s alloc_size attribute, causing the fortify
check to use the (smaller) size from realloc() instead, which eventually
leads to a false-positive buffer overflow:

$ build/test-varlink-idl
/* test_parse_format */
...
*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
Aborted                    (core dumped) build/test-varlink-idl

This is not an issue with gcc (at least not yet), since gcc sees
expand_to_usable() as an opaque user-defined allocation-like function
and simply trusts the alloc_size attribute that comes with it.

To fix this, let's add a simple no-op barrier to malloc_sizeof_safe()
that clobbers the input pointer, which causes
__builtin_dynamic_object_size() to return (size_t)-1 - this is
interpreted as an "unknown" size by the following fortify check which is
then skipped instead of triggering the assertion.

Similarly, test-alloc-util now doesn't call malloc_usable_size()
directly but instead goes through malloc_sizeof_safe(), so it's also
guarded by the barrier.

This follows the already established pile of similar workaround for the
same class of issues we encountered with gcc, namely [0], which prompted
[1], that was later reverted in [2], and then followed by another couple
of fixes in [3] and [4].

Resolves: #43178

[0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/22801
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/0bd292567a543d124cd303f7dd61169a209cae64
[2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/2cfb790391958ada34284290af1f9ab863a515c7
[3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/7929e180aa47a2692ad4f053afac2857d7198758
[4] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4f79f545b3c46c358666c9f5f2b384fe50aac4b4
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