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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2017-05-05 11:31:38 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2017-05-22 18:13:35 -0300
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libio: Avoid dup already opened file descriptor [BZ#21393]
As described in BZ#21398 (close as dup of 21393) report current
freopen implementation fails when one tries to freopen STDIN_FILENO,
STDOUT_FILENO, or STDERR_FILENO.  Although on bug report the
discussion leads to argue if a close followed by a freopen on the
standard file is a valid operation, the underlying issue is not
really the check for dup3 returned value, but rather calling it
if the returned file descriptor is equal as the input one.

So for a quality of implementation this patch avoid calling dup3
for the aforementioned case.  It also adds a dup3 error case check
for the two possible failures, with one being Linux only: EINTR and
EBUSY.  The EBUSY issue is better explained on this stackoverflow
thread [1], but in a short it is due the internal Linux
implementation which allows a race condition window for dup2 due
the logic dissociation of file descriptor allocation and actual
VFS 'install' operation.  For both outliers failures all allocated
memory is freed and a NULL FILE* is returned.

With this patch the example on BZ#21398 is now actually possible
(I used as the testcase for the bug report).  Checked on
x86_64-linux-gnu.

	[BZ #21393]
	* libio/freopen.c (freopen): Avoid dup already opened file descriptor
	and add a check for dup3 failure.
	* libio/freopen64.c (freopen64): Likewise.
	* libio/tst-freopen.c (do_test): Rename to do_test_basic and use
	libsupport.
	(do_test_bz21398): New test.
	* manual/stdio.texi (freopen): Add documentation of EBUSY failure.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23440216/race-condition-when-using-dup2
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog11
-rw-r--r--libio/freopen.c22
-rw-r--r--libio/freopen64.c22
-rw-r--r--libio/tst-freopen.c107
-rw-r--r--manual/stdio.texi10
5 files changed, 113 insertions, 59 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4ce26de40b..dde43e08f5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+2017-05-22  Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
+
+	[BZ #21393]
+	* libio/freopen.c (freopen): Avoid dup already opened file descriptor
+	and add a check for dup3 failure.
+	* libio/freopen64.c (freopen64): Likewise.
+	* libio/tst-freopen.c (do_test): Rename to do_test_basic and use
+	libsupport.
+	(do_test_bz21398): New test.
+	* manual/stdio.texi (freopen): Add documentation of EBUSY failure.
+
 2017-05-22  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
 
 	* sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_matches_host):
diff --git a/libio/freopen.c b/libio/freopen.c
index ad1c848877..980523af48 100644
--- a/libio/freopen.c
+++ b/libio/freopen.c
@@ -76,17 +76,31 @@ freopen (const char *filename, const char *mode, FILE *fp)
       /* unbound stream orientation */
       result->_mode = 0;
 
-      if (fd != -1)
+      if (fd != -1 && _IO_fileno (result) != fd)
 	{
-	  __dup3 (_IO_fileno (result), fd,
-		  (result->_flags2 & _IO_FLAGS2_CLOEXEC) != 0
-		  ? O_CLOEXEC : 0);
+	  /* At this point we have both file descriptors already allocated,
+	     so __dup3 will not fail with EBADF, EINVAL, or EMFILE.  But
+	     we still need to check for EINVAL and, due Linux internal
+	     implementation, EBUSY.  It is because on how it internally opens
+	     the file by splitting the buffer allocation operation and VFS
+	     opening (a dup operation may run when a file is still pending
+	     'install' on VFS).  */
+	  if (__dup3 (_IO_fileno (result), fd,
+		      (result->_flags2 & _IO_FLAGS2_CLOEXEC) != 0
+		      ? O_CLOEXEC : 0) == -1)
+	    {
+	      _IO_file_close_it (result);
+	      result = NULL;
+	      goto end;
+	    }
 	  __close (_IO_fileno (result));
 	  _IO_fileno (result) = fd;
 	}
     }
   else if (fd != -1)
     __close (fd);
+
+end:
   if (filename == NULL)
     free ((char *) gfilename);
 
diff --git a/libio/freopen64.c b/libio/freopen64.c
index adf749a070..1e56de616c 100644
--- a/libio/freopen64.c
+++ b/libio/freopen64.c
@@ -59,17 +59,31 @@ freopen64 (const char *filename, const char *mode, FILE *fp)
       /* unbound stream orientation */
       result->_mode = 0;
 
-      if (fd != -1)
+      if (fd != -1 && _IO_fileno (result) != fd)
 	{
-	  __dup3 (_IO_fileno (result), fd,
-		  (result->_flags2 & _IO_FLAGS2_CLOEXEC) != 0
-		  ? O_CLOEXEC : 0);
+	  /* At this point we have both file descriptors already allocated,
+	     so __dup3 will not fail with EBADF, EINVAL, or EMFILE.  But
+	     we still need to check for EINVAL and, due Linux internal
+	     implementation, EBUSY.  It is because on how it internally opens
+	     the file by splitting the buffer allocation operation and VFS
+	     opening (a dup operation may run when a file is still pending
+	     'install' on VFS).  */
+	  if (__dup3 (_IO_fileno (result), fd,
+		      (result->_flags2 & _IO_FLAGS2_CLOEXEC) != 0
+		      ? O_CLOEXEC : 0) == -1)
+	    {
+	      _IO_file_close_it (result);
+	      result = NULL;
+	      goto end;
+	    }
 	  __close (_IO_fileno (result));
 	  _IO_fileno (result) = fd;
 	}
     }
   else if (fd != -1)
     __close (fd);
+
+end:
   if (filename == NULL)
     free ((char *) gfilename);
   _IO_release_lock (fp);
diff --git a/libio/tst-freopen.c b/libio/tst-freopen.c
index 5f531e3940..5ad589bffa 100644
--- a/libio/tst-freopen.c
+++ b/libio/tst-freopen.c
@@ -22,84 +22,91 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
-static int
-do_test (void)
+#include <support/check.h>
+#include <support/temp_file.h>
+
+static int fd;
+static char *name;
+
+static void
+do_prepare (int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+  fd = create_temp_file ("tst-freopen.", &name);
+  TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (fd != -1);
+}
+
+#define PREPARE do_prepare
+
+/* Basic tests for freopen.  */
+static void
+do_test_basic (void)
 {
-  char name[] = "/tmp/tst-freopen.XXXXXX";
   const char * const test = "Let's test freopen.\n";
   char temp[strlen (test) + 1];
-  int fd = mkstemp (name);
-  FILE *f;
-
-  if (fd == -1)
-    {
-      printf ("%u: cannot open temporary file: %m\n", __LINE__);
-      exit (1);
-    }
 
-  f = fdopen (fd, "w");
+  FILE *f = fdopen (fd, "w");
   if (f == NULL)
-    {
-      printf ("%u: cannot fdopen temporary file: %m\n", __LINE__);
-      exit (1);
-    }
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("fdopen: %m");
 
   fputs (test, f);
   fclose (f);
 
   f = fopen (name, "r");
   if (f == NULL)
-    {
-      printf ("%u: cannot fopen temporary file: %m\n", __LINE__);
-      exit (1);
-    }
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("fopen: %m");
 
   if (fread (temp, 1, strlen (test), f) != strlen (test))
-    {
-      printf ("%u: couldn't read the file back: %m\n", __LINE__);
-      exit (1);
-    }
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("fread: %m");
   temp [strlen (test)] = '\0';
 
   if (strcmp (test, temp))
-    {
-      printf ("%u: read different string than was written:\n%s%s",
-	      __LINE__, test, temp);
-      exit (1);
-    }
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("read different string than was written: (%s, %s)",
+	        test, temp);
 
   f = freopen (name, "r+", f);
   if (f == NULL)
-    {
-      printf ("%u: cannot freopen temporary file: %m\n", __LINE__);
-      exit (1);
-    }
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("freopen: %m");
 
   if (fseek (f, 0, SEEK_SET) != 0)
-    {
-      printf ("%u: couldn't fseek to start: %m\n", __LINE__);
-      exit (1);
-    }
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("fseek: %m");
 
   if (fread (temp, 1, strlen (test), f) != strlen (test))
-    {
-      printf ("%u: couldn't read the file back: %m\n", __LINE__);
-      exit (1);
-    }
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("fread: %m");
   temp [strlen (test)] = '\0';
 
   if (strcmp (test, temp))
-    {
-      printf ("%u: read different string than was written:\n%s%s",
-	      __LINE__, test, temp);
-      exit (1);
-    }
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("read different string than was written: (%s, %s)",
+	        test, temp);
 
   fclose (f);
+}
+
+/* Test for BZ#21398, where it tries to freopen stdio after the close
+   of its file descriptor.  */
+static void
+do_test_bz21398 (void)
+{
+  (void) close (STDIN_FILENO);
+
+  FILE *f = freopen (name, "r", stdin);
+  if (f == NULL)
+    FAIL_EXIT1 ("freopen: %m");
+
+  TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ferror (f) == 0);
+
+  char buf[128];
+  char *ret = fgets (buf, sizeof (buf), stdin);
+  TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ret != NULL);
+  TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ferror (f) == 0);
+}
+
+static int
+do_test (void)
+{
+  do_test_basic ();
+  do_test_bz21398 ();
 
-  unlink (name);
-  exit (0);
+  return 0;
 }
 
-#define TEST_FUNCTION do_test ()
-#include "../test-skeleton.c"
+#include <support/test-driver.c>
diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi
index dbb21ca4a9..29f3fed89b 100644
--- a/manual/stdio.texi
+++ b/manual/stdio.texi
@@ -316,7 +316,15 @@ actually done any output using the stream.)  Then the file named by
 and associated with the same stream object @var{stream}.
 
 If the operation fails, a null pointer is returned; otherwise,
-@code{freopen} returns @var{stream}.
+@code{freopen} returns @var{stream}.  On Linux, @code{freopen} may also
+fail and set @code{errno} to @code{EBUSY} when the kernel structure for
+the old file descriptor was not initialized completely before @code{freopen}
+was called.  This can only happen in multi-threaded programs, when two
+threads race to allocate the same file descriptor number.  To avoid the
+possibility of this race, do not use @code{close} to close the underlying
+file descriptor for a @code{FILE}; either use @code{freopen} while the
+file is still open, or use @code{open} and then @code{dup2} to install
+the new file descriptor.
 
 @code{freopen} has traditionally been used to connect a standard stream
 such as @code{stdin} with a file of your own choice.  This is useful in