To generate this patch, we can follow these reasoning steps:

Step 1. Root Cause Analysis:

1. Input validation:
   - The function takes 'cur', 'add', and 'len' as inputs.
   - There are checks for 'add' and 'len', but no explicit check for 'cur'.

2. Size calculation:
   - 'size' is calculated using xmlStrlen(cur).
   - There's no check if 'size' is valid (non-negative).

3. Memory allocation:
   - xmlRealloc is called with (size + len + 1) * sizeof(xmlChar).
   - If 'size' is negative, this calculation could result in an integer overflow.

4. Potential vulnerability:
   - If 'size' is negative, it could lead to an integer overflow.
   - This overflow could result in allocating less memory than needed.
   - Writing to this under-allocated memory would cause a buffer overflow (CWE-787).

Conclusion: The vulnerability occurs because there's no check for a negative 'size' value before using it in memory allocation calculations.

Step 2. Fixing Strategy:

1. Add a check for negative 'size' after calculating it:
   - If 'size' is negative, return NULL to indicate an error.

2. This check prevents using an invalid 'size' in the memory allocation calculation.

3. The fix should be placed immediately after calculating 'size' and before the reallocation.

Therefore, the patch should be:

```
<     size = xmlStrlen(cur);
<     ret = (xmlChar *)xmlRealloc(cur, (size + len + 1) * sizeof(xmlChar));
---
>     size = xmlStrlen(cur);
>     if (size < 0)
>     {
>         return (NULL);
>     }
>     ret = (xmlChar *)xmlRealloc(cur, (size + len + 1) * sizeof(xmlChar));
```

This patch adds a check for negative 'size', returning NULL if it's invalid, thus preventing the potential integer overflow and subsequent buffer overflow.