svn commit: r280312 - head/sys/kern

Mateusz Guzik mjg at FreeBSD.org
Sat Mar 21 04:39:35 UTC 2015


Author: mjg
Date: Sat Mar 21 04:39:33 2015
New Revision: 280312
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/280312

Log:
  coredump: protect corefilename access with a lock
  
  Previously format string traversal could happen while the string itself was
  being modified.
  
  Use allproc_lock as coredumping is a rare operation and as such we don't
  have to create a dedicated lock.
  
  Submitted by:	Tiwei Bie <btw mail.ustc.edu.cn>
  Reviewed by:	kib
  X-Additional:	JuniorJobs project

Modified:
  head/sys/kern/kern_sig.c

Modified: head/sys/kern/kern_sig.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/kern/kern_sig.c	Sat Mar 21 03:54:11 2015	(r280311)
+++ head/sys/kern/kern_sig.c	Sat Mar 21 04:39:33 2015	(r280312)
@@ -3089,9 +3089,28 @@ SYSCTL_INT(_kern, OID_AUTO, compress_use
 static int compress_user_cores = 0;
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Protect the access to corefilename[] by allproc_lock.
+ */
+#define	corefilename_lock	allproc_lock
+
 static char corefilename[MAXPATHLEN] = {"%N.core"};
-SYSCTL_STRING(_kern, OID_AUTO, corefile, CTLFLAG_RWTUN, corefilename,
-    sizeof(corefilename), "Process corefile name format string");
+
+static int
+sysctl_kern_corefile(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
+{
+	int error;
+
+	sx_xlock(&corefilename_lock);
+	error = sysctl_handle_string(oidp, corefilename, sizeof(corefilename),
+	    req);
+	sx_xunlock(&corefilename_lock);
+
+	return (error);
+}
+SYSCTL_PROC(_kern, OID_AUTO, corefile, CTLTYPE_STRING | CTLFLAG_RWTUN |
+    CTLFLAG_MPSAFE, 0, 0, sysctl_kern_corefile, "A",
+    "Process corefile name format string");
 
 /*
  * corefile_open(comm, uid, pid, td, compress, vpp, namep)
@@ -3120,6 +3139,7 @@ corefile_open(const char *comm, uid_t ui
 	name = malloc(MAXPATHLEN, M_TEMP, M_WAITOK | M_ZERO);
 	indexpos = -1;
 	(void)sbuf_new(&sb, name, MAXPATHLEN, SBUF_FIXEDLEN);
+	sx_slock(&corefilename_lock);
 	for (i = 0; format[i] != '\0'; i++) {
 		switch (format[i]) {
 		case '%':	/* Format character */
@@ -3162,6 +3182,7 @@ corefile_open(const char *comm, uid_t ui
 			break;
 		}
 	}
+	sx_sunlock(&corefilename_lock);
 	free(hostname, M_TEMP);
 	if (compress)
 		sbuf_printf(&sb, GZ_SUFFIX);


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