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Message-ID: <20230224133413.GE4163@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:34:14 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...gle.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: undefined behavior in fread.c
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 07:52:11AM -0500, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> Hello, it's me again! I previously reported undefined behavior in
> getdelim.c in https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2021/08/30/1, and just
> noticed this week that it has been fixed. Thank you!
>
> After pulling in the latest changes, we now trip over UB in fread.c at
> https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stdio/fread.c#n21 on a
> `fread(NULL, 1, 0, ...)` call. `dest` is `NULL`, and incrementing a null
> pointer (even by zero) is UB. Here's the stack trace:
>
> .../../zircon/third_party/ulib/musl/src/stdio/fread.c:22:10: runtime error:
> applying zero offset to null pointer
> #0 0x00008037bf602a6c in fread(void* restrict, size_t, size_t, FILE*
> restrict) ../../zircon/third_party/ulib/musl/src/stdio/fread.c:22
> <libr.so>+0x168a6c
> #1.2 0x0000421373b5f4ec in ubsan_GetStackTrace()
> compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_diag.cpp:41 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x3d4ec
> #1.1 0x0000421373b5f4ec in MaybePrintStackTrace()
> compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_diag.cpp:51 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x3d4ec
> #1 0x0000421373b5f4ec in ~ScopedReport()
> compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_diag.cpp:387 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x3d4ec
> #2 0x0000421373b62684 in handlePointerOverflowImpl()
> compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_handlers.cpp:809 <libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x40684
> #3 0x0000421373b6239c in compiler-rt/lib/ubsan/ubsan_handlers.cpp:815 <
> libclang_rt.asan.so>+0x4039c
> #4 0x00008037bf602a6c in fread(void* restrict, size_t, size_t, FILE*
> restrict) ../../zircon/third_party/ulib/musl/src/stdio/fread.c:22
> <libc.so>+0x168a6c
> #5 0x00004347972c0934 in FT_Stream_Seek(FT_Stream, FT_ULong)
> .../../third_party/freetype2/src/base/ftstream.c:64 <libfreetype2.so>+0xf1934
>
> I think instead of `nmemb = 0` on line 10 that should just return.
>
> I've confirmed glibc does a similar check and avoids UB in this case. See
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=libio/iofread.c;hb=HEAD#l35
> and https://godbolt.org/z/cYc9rG1ea.
>
> Please CC me on responses as I am not a subscriber to this mailing list
> per the guidance on https://musl.libc.org/support.html.
Is there any indication that passing NULL as the first argument to
fread is not itself undefined? Normally I would expect that to be the
case.
Rich
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