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Bug 1463312

Summary: shp.fdstatus may be accessed with -1 offset, corrupting last element of shp.fdptrs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Paulo Andrade <pandrade>
Component: kshAssignee: Siteshwar Vashisht <svashisht>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version: 6.5CC: cww, kdudka
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Last Closed: 2017-08-16 16:48:43 UTC Type: Bug
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ksh-20120801-fdstatus.patch none

Description Paulo Andrade 2017-06-20 14:37:29 UTC
Created attachment 1289676 [details]
ksh-20120801-fdstatus.patch

Based on coredump state:

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  sh_close (fd=4095) at /usr/src/debug/ksh-20120801/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/io.c:704
704			*shp->fdptrs[fd] = -1;
(gdb) p fd
$1 = 4095
(gdb) p shp.gd.lim.open_max
$2 = 4096
(gdb) p shp.fdptrs[4095]
$3 = (int *) 0xa00000000000000
(gdb) p shp.fdptrs+4096
$4 = (int **) 0x7f302e64a050
(gdb) p shp.fdstatus
$5 = (unsigned char *) 0x7f302e64a050 "\t\022"
(gdb) p/o shp.fdstatus[-1]
$6 = 012
(gdb) p/x shp.fdstatus[-1]
$7 = 0xa

so, it apparently has set shp.fdstatus[-1] to
#define IOWRITE		002
#define IOSEEK		010

  Also possibly indicating the cause of the problem:

(gdb) frame 1
#1  0x0000000000457f07 in iousepipe (shp=0x76e340)
    at /usr/src/debug/ksh-20120801/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c:130
130		sh_close(subpipe[1]);
(gdb) p subpipe
$8 = {5, 4095, -1}

  At first, I will try a somewhat brute force patch, by allowing
a -1 offset to fdptrs and fdstatus, as the user is already using
the patch in bz 1259898 to avoid other crashes.

  The "somewhat" brute force patch is because there are several
places that do not check for a -1 file descriptor, but, if problems
happen again with the patch, it might be required to add a fatal
termination error to sh_iomovefd if the "dup(fdold)" call fails,
as otherwise it (sh_iomovefd) will set a -1 offset, and return a -1
fd that other code will also use as offset in shp->fdstatus.
  At first, I believe the issue is in sh_iomovefd, and likely, the
process run out of file descriptors, due to leaking them.