Bug 97399

Summary: pppd leaks descriptor
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Steve Grubb <linux_4ever>
Component: pppAssignee: Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Description Steve Grubb 2003-06-14 13:36:09 UTC
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Description of problem:
The pppd daemon is leaking a file descriptor to /var/run/pppd.tdb to all of its
child programs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ppp-2.4.1-10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The env_audit program has instructions as to how to reproduce this. It boils
down to doing this:

pppd /dev/modem init full_path/env_audit


Actual Results:  Open file descriptor: 7
User ID of File Owner: root
Group ID of File Owner: root
WARNING - Descriptor is leaked from parent.
File type: regular file, inode - 51654, device - 776
The descriptor is: /var/run/pppd.tdb
File's actual permissions: 644
File descriptor mode is: read and write

Expected Results:  No leaks

Additional info:

retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3
--- ppp/pppd/tdb.c	2002/06/24 12:42:24	1.2
+++ ppp/pppd/tdb.c	2003/02/24 10:28:00	1.3
@@ -1134,6 +1134,7 @@
             if (tdb.fd == -1) {
 		goto fail;
             }
+	    (void) fcntl(tdb.fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
         }
 
 	/* ensure there is only one process initialising at once */

Comment 1 Steve Grubb 2003-06-14 14:20:49 UTC
I found more leaks. The following patch fixes it.


--- ppp-2.4.1/pppd/sys-linux.c  2001-03-13 00:54:41.000000000 -0500
+++ ppp-2.4.1.new/pppd/sys-linux.c      2003-06-14 10:14:10.000000000 -0400
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@
        if (flags == -1
            || fcntl(ppp_dev_fd, F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK) == -1)
            warn("Couldn't set /dev/ppp to nonblock: %m");
+       (void) fcntl(ppp_dev_fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
     }
                                                                                
     /* Get an internet socket for doing socket ioctls. */
@@ -406,6 +407,7 @@
            error("Couldn't reopen /dev/ppp: %m");
            goto err;
        }
+       (void) fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
        if (ioctl(fd, PPPIOCATTCHAN, &chindex) < 0) {
            error("Couldn't attach to channel %d: %m", chindex);
            goto err_close;


Comment 2 Thomas Woerner 2004-08-17 09:41:49 UTC
Fixed in FC2 in rpm ppp-2.4.2-1 or newer.