I suspect it was because the child exec code's parent was doing the
initial lookups, then forking, then doing other things (possibly trashing
the static data in the getpw*() buffer), then attempting to dereference
*pwd and *lc. Also, no error checking appeared to be done - I've allowed
it to fall back to the old "become user" code on critical failure rather than
risk running a user's cron jobs as root.
Accept SIGHUP as a "re-open logfile" signal. As ppp
doesn't set it's serial line to it's controlling terminal,
we can use HUP :)
This is a candidate for 2.2. The log.[ch] changes won't
conflict, but the main.c changes will. We just want to change the
kill(...,SIGHUP) to a SIGTERM and change the signal(SIGHUP,Hangup)
to a pending_signal(SIGHUP,LogReOpen).
These changes should fix the signal "problems" in ppp.
The signal changes should really be put into 2.2 too !
The following patches should do it. There were some other
changes made by Andrey recently that havn't been brought
into 2.2, it may be worth doing them now.
2. fix a potential buffer oflow,
3. makes watch(8) conform to sysexits(3).
Not a strong 2.2 candidate even if it would be nice.
Reviewed by: joerg, imp
was not setting the version number in the nfs_args data to mount(2), so it
was returning EFAULT. Perhaps the nfs_args version number was something
we added at some point?
to try and work around the nfsv3 headers in the post-lite2-kernel era.
This program somehow manages to make just about every #include conflict
with everything else. :-(
This puts it on the same footing as cvsup. It's been suggested on
numerous occasions that I shouldn't have imported it in the first place,
and now that sup has outlived it's usefulness..... Boom!
we need now.
Don't assume that file descriptor can't be 0 (many places)
Protect FD_* macros from being used with negative descriptors
Shorten MS EXT show help to fit 80 cols
dangerous! Signal handlers themself must be fixed to not call malloc,
but no pended handlers, it will be correct fix. In finite case each signal
handler can set some variable which will be analized later, but calling
handler functions manually is too dangerous (f.e. signals not blocked while
the handler or handlers switch executed in this case). Of course this
code can be fixed instead of removing, but it not worth fixing in any case.
Should go into 2.2
In addition sig.c code shows following dangerous fragments (there can be more,
but I stop after two):
This fragment
if (fn == SIG_DFL || fn == SIG_IGN) {
handler[sig-1] = (sig_type)0;
<------------- here
signal(sig,fn);
} else {
cause NULL pointer reference when signal comes
"here", but more worse fragment is below:
void handle_signals() {
int sig;
if (caused)
for (sig=0; sig<__MAXSIG; sig++, caused>>=1)
if (caused&1)
(*handler[sig])(sig+1);
}
caused is bitmask which set corresponding bit on each signal coming.
And now imagine, what happens when some signal comes (bit sets) while loop
is executed (see caused>>=1 !!!)
In this light carrier drop situation was (as gdb shows)
1. SIGSEGV in handle_signals because some junk called as *handler reference.
2. Since SIGSEGV was pended too (== never happens),
it can cause various range of disasters.
