Bug 2061557

Summary: issue with libmagic and floating point exceptions
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Paulo Andrade <pandrade>
Component: fileAssignee: Vincent Mihalkovič <vmihalko>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Karel Volný <kvolny>
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Version: 8.5CC: kdudka, kvolny
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Last Closed: 2023-05-16 09:12:55 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Paulo Andrade 2022-03-07 20:10:26 UTC
User has software with floating point exceptions enabled, and when using
libmagic internals, get a floating point exception when comparing a NaN with
a number.

This is a very special case, but would force user to disable/enable exceptions
when calling libmagic functions. Or, user suggests libmagic could
disable/(re)enable exceptions.

  Sample of what happens:

"""
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <fenv.h>

int feenableexcept(int);
int fedisableexcept(int);

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  union {
    int   i;
    float f;
  } u[2];
  fedisableexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT);
  feenableexcept(FE_INVALID);
  u[0].i = -1;  // NaN
  u[1].f = 1;
  printf("%d\n", u[0].f < u[1].f);
  //printf("%d\n", isless(u[0].f, u[1].f));
  return 0;
}
"""

$ gcc test.c -lm
$ ./a.out
Floating point exception (core dumped)

  User also sets other exceptions, but libmagic should only trigger
FE_INVALID.

  A possible pseudo patch would be to change file/softmagic.c with pseudo patch:

...
#include <math.h>
...
		case '!':
-			matched = fv != fl;
+			matched = isunordered(fv, fl) ? 1 : fv != fl;
			break;

		case '=':
-			matched = fv == fl;
+			matched = isunordered(fv, fl) ? 0 : fv == fl;
			break;

		case '>':
-			matched = fv > fl;
+			matched = isgreater(fv, fl);
			break;

		case '<':
-			matched = fv < fl;
+			matched = isless(fv, fl);
			break;
...

and as appropriate for double values.

  There should be no floating operations on infinities or division
by zero, so, the above should resolve the issue for the user. There would
be a small extra overhead, when using the macros, that resolve to
__builtin_is{less,greater,unordered}.

  The problem happens with a customer user file. User is afraid other data
files might trigger the problem in libmagic.

Comment 1 Karel Volný 2023-02-07 14:37:51 UTC
do we have a reproducer for this?

Comment 2 Paulo Andrade 2023-02-07 14:54:15 UTC
There is a sample program and input reproducer in the customer portal
support case.

It is too large to attach to bugzilla.

The problem does not happen in latest libmagic upstream as it uses a
different code path. The problem is triggered by the rhel8 version of
libmagic and the pattern in the sample file.

If you have trouble getting the data from the customer portal please
let me know.

Comment 3 Karel Volný 2023-02-07 15:54:57 UTC
(In reply to Paulo Andrade from comment #2)
> There is a sample program and input reproducer in the customer portal
> support case.
> 
> It is too large to attach to bugzilla.

ok, in that case, it'd be impractical to use it for regression testing, large blobs aren't good for git either

I guess patch review is sufficient then ...

> If you have trouble getting the data from the customer portal please
> let me know.

well, yes, I do, currently I'm getting this error:
"The credentials you provided are valid, but you do not have direct support from Red Hat."

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 09:12:55 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (file bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:3063