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Emmanuel T Odeke 56fc3fc572 codec/types: avoid unnecessary allocations for NewAnyWithCustomTypeURL on error (#8605)
Avoids a bleed out attack in which a node can be made to allocate
memory slowly or very fast in small strides, by sending bad data
to code that invokes NewAnyWithCustomTypeURL, in which we
unconditionally returned a new Any object. On a 64-bit machine,
this would waste 96 bytes per invocation even on error.

Added a test to ensure zero allocations with a fixed error returned.
Also added a benchmark which shows reduction in wasted allocations and
wasted CPU time:

```shell
$ benchstat before.txt after.txt
name                                            old time/op    new time/op    delta
NewAnyWithCustomTypeURLWithErrorReturned-8      142ns ± 6%      55ns ±12%   -61.65%  (p=0.000 n=9+10)

name                                            old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
NewAnyWithCustomTypeURLWithErrorReturned-8      96.0B ± 0%      0.0B       -100.00%  (p=0.000 n=10+10)

name                                            old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
NewAnyWithCustomTypeURLWithErrorReturned-8      1.00 ± 0%      0.00       -100.00%  (p=0.000 n=10+10)
```

Fixes #8537
2021-02-17 10:13:00 +00:00
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