getcwd() has two off-by-one bugs in FreeBSD-2.0:
1. getcwd(buf, size) fails when the size is just large enough.
2. getcwd(buf + 1, 1) incorrectly succeeds when the current directory
is "/". buf[0] and buf[2] are clobbered.
(I modified Bruce's original patch to return the proper error code
[ERANGE] in the case of #2, but otherwise... -DG)
This program demonstrates the bug:
---
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
{
char buf[5];
int errors;
errors = 0;
if (chdir("/tmp") != 0) {
perror("chdir");
abort();
}
if (getcwd(buf, 5) == NULL) {
perror("oops, getcwd failed for buffer size = size required");
++errors;
}
if (chdir("/") != 0) {
perror("chdir");
abort();
}
buf[0] = 0;
buf[2] = 1;
if (getcwd(buf + 1, 1) != NULL) {
fprintf(stderr,
"oops, getcwd succeeded for buffer size = one too small\n");
++errors;
}
if (buf[0] != 0) {
fprintf(stderr,
"oops, getcwd scribbled on memory before start of buffer\n");
++errors;
}
if (buf[2] != 1) {
fprintf(stderr,
"oops, getcwd scribbled on memory after end of buffer\n");
++errors;
}
exit(errors == 0 ? 0 : 1);
}
pointer returned by realloc(). All callers free the pointer if the
execve fails. Nuke the caching. This essentially restores buildargv()
to the 1.1.5 version. Also fix a memory leak if realloc() fails. Also
nuke similar but non-broken caching in execvp(). malloc() should be
efficient enough.
later be applied to a number of programs (inetd for instance) to clean
out the bogus code doing the same thing, modulus all the bugs.
If you need to read a '#'-is-a-comment-file, please use these routines.
I realize that the shlib# should be bumped (for the non-US world:
increased by something), but will defer this until something significant
happens.
!!!!!!!!
NB
!!!!!!!!
You MUST pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd before attempting to use the new
libc, or things may go wrong. (I doubt anything actually /will/ go
wrong, but the actual behavior is undefined. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.)
The database format is, however, backwards-compatible, so old executables
will still work.
are running under. Here's how to bootstrap (order is important):
1) Re-compile gcc (just the driver is all you need).
2) Re-compile libc.
3) Re-compile your kernel. Reboot.
4) cd /usr/src/include; make install
You can now detect the compilation environment with the following code:
#if !defined(__FreeBSD__)
#define __FreeBSD_version 199401
#elif __FreeBSD__ == 1
#define __FreeBSD_version 199405
#else
#include <osreldate.h>
#endif
You can determine the run-time environment by calling the new C library
function getosreldate(), or by examining the MIB variable kern.osreldate.
For the time being, the release date is defined as 199409, which we have
already established as our target.
