Is it safe to allocate memory for buffers on external dll and use it on main application?

All modules in a running process share the same address space (doesn't care whether you're Windows or Linux or whatever actually, it's a common principle). However, be careful: reading or writing from module A to a buffer owned by module B is fine - but freeing the buffer is probably bad.

If both the DLL and the main executable were linked with the same C runtime, this is OK and you can call free() on the pointer to release it. However, a better idea is in the DLL to provide a function FreeData( void * ) which releases the data. In this way all memory management is done in the context of the DLL.

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