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authorDan Wilder <dan.wilder@watchguard.com>2014-10-25 00:51:59 +0200
committerFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>2014-10-25 01:00:35 +0200
commit78683093cf4f059531e5f929a4884ffaecb8411c (patch)
treebff825b34a1c4c101921571fcb15cc503f15dae0 /libxtables
parenta4e78370af8498e2de65fcb8aafed39a4482966c (diff)
libxtables: move some code to avoid cautions in vfork man page
Running iptables-restore on an embedded platform containing no modprobe program, the following lines in xtables.c lead to corrupted stack frame: 357 switch (vfork()) { 358 case 0: 359 argv[0] = (char *)modprobe; 360 argv[1] = (char *)modname; 361 if (quiet) { 362 argv[2] = "-q"; 363 argv[3] = NULL; 364 } else { 365 argv[2] = NULL; 366 argv[3] = NULL; 367 } 368 execv(argv[0], argv); 369 370 /* not usually reached */ 371 exit(1); modprobe pointed to a non-existant program /sbin/modprobe, so execv() always failed. Not a problem in itself on our platform, as the kernel modules are pre-loaded before iptables-restore is run, but it took a bit of headscratching to track this down, as a stack frame was corrupted, leading to failures quite a while after the function containing this code had returned! Relevant caution in man 2 vfork: "The vfork() function has the same effect as fork(2), except that the behavior is undefined if the process created by vfork() either modifies any data ... or calls any other function before successfully calling _exit(2) or one of the exec(3) family of functions." Apparently this has not been a problem for us in earlier versions of glibc, maybe because vfork was more like fork, maybe because the stack corruption was innocuous. Ours is a corner case anyway, as it might not have been a problem had modprobe existed or had modprobe been a symlink to /bin/true. But it seems odd to disregard man page cautions, and our problem goes away if they are heeded. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'libxtables')
-rw-r--r--libxtables/xtables.c16
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/libxtables/xtables.c b/libxtables/xtables.c
index 46f5e352..68411248 100644
--- a/libxtables/xtables.c
+++ b/libxtables/xtables.c
@@ -348,6 +348,11 @@ int xtables_insmod(const char *modname, const char *modprobe, bool quiet)
modprobe = buf;
}
+ argv[0] = (char *)modprobe;
+ argv[1] = (char *)modname;
+ argv[2] = quiet ? "-q" : NULL;
+ argv[3] = NULL;
+
/*
* Need to flush the buffer, or the child may output it again
* when switching the program thru execv.
@@ -356,19 +361,10 @@ int xtables_insmod(const char *modname, const char *modprobe, bool quiet)
switch (vfork()) {
case 0:
- argv[0] = (char *)modprobe;
- argv[1] = (char *)modname;
- if (quiet) {
- argv[2] = "-q";
- argv[3] = NULL;
- } else {
- argv[2] = NULL;
- argv[3] = NULL;
- }
execv(argv[0], argv);
/* not usually reached */
- exit(1);
+ _exit(1);
case -1:
free(buf);
return -1;