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Message-ID: <20180112193847.GN1627@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:38:47 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make getcwd fail if it cannot obtain an absolute
path
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 02:29:27PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 06:12:24PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > Currently getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
> > because the underlying getcwd syscall, starting with linux commit
> > v2.6.36-rc1~96^2~2, may succeed without returning an absolute path.
> >
> > This is a conformance issue because "The getcwd() function shall
> > place an absolute pathname of the current working directory
> > in the array pointed to by buf, and return buf".
> >
> > Fix this by checking the path returned by syscall and failing with
> > ENOENT if the path is not absolute. The error code is chosen for
> > consistency with the case when the current directory is unlinked.
> >
> > Similar issue was fixed in glibc recently, see
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22679
> > ---
> > src/unistd/getcwd.c | 8 +++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/unistd/getcwd.c b/src/unistd/getcwd.c
> > index a7b925d..103fbbb 100644
> > --- a/src/unistd/getcwd.c
> > +++ b/src/unistd/getcwd.c
> > @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ char *getcwd(char *buf, size_t size)
> > errno = EINVAL;
> > return 0;
> > }
> > - if (syscall(SYS_getcwd, buf, size) < 0) return 0;
> > + long ret = syscall(SYS_getcwd, buf, size);
> > + if (ret < 0)
> > + return 0;
> > + if (ret == 0 || buf[0] != '/') {
> > + errno = ENOENT;
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > return buf == tmp ? strdup(buf) : buf;
> > }
> > --
> > ldv
>
> Looks ok. Can you provide any details on the circumstances under which
> the kernel bug manifests? This would help users who may be affected
> assess the severity of the situation.
Ah, this answers it:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=v2.6.36-rc1~96%5e2~2
So it seems to be things like a no-longer-reachable working directory
after chroot or in a container.
Rich
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