In expectv realloc() leaves the original allocation untouched when it fails. The current code assigns the return value directly to exp_buffer, losing the only local reference to the old allocation on ENOMEM.
Since cleanup stores exp_buffer back into f->buffer, the failure path also poisons the per-fd state with NULL while buffer_end and match_end may still refer to the old allocation.
Store the realloc() result in a temporary pointer and update exp_buffer only after success.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.