We could potentially create an unterminated string and then call normal string
operations on it. Let's be more careful: first remove the suffix we ignore anyway,
then find if the string is of acceptable length, and possibly ignore it if it
is too long. The code rejects lengths above 31 bytes. Language names that are
actually used are much shorter, so this doesn't matter much.
In normal use, this allow us to drop dead entries from the cache and reduces
the cache size so that we don't evict entries unnecessarily. The time limit is
there mostly to serve as a guard against malicious logging from many different
PIDs.
This is far from perfect, but should give mostly reasonable values. My
assumption is that if somebody has a few hundred MB of memory, they are
unlikely to have thousands of processes logging. A hundred would already be a
lot. So let's scale the cache size propritionally to the total memory size,
with clamping on both ends.
The formula gives 64 cache entries for each GB of RAM.
Found by inspecting results of running this small program:
int main(int argc, const char **argv) {
for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
FILE *f;
char line[1024], prev[1024], *r;
int lineno;
prev[0] = '\0';
lineno = 1;
f = fopen(argv[i], "r");
if (!f)
exit(1);
do {
r = fgets(line, sizeof(line), f);
if (!r)
break;
if (strcmp(line, prev) == 0)
printf("%s:%d: error: dup %s", argv[i], lineno, line);
lineno++;
strcpy(prev, line);
} while (!feof(f));
fclose(f);
}
}
We immediately read the whole contents into memory, making thigs much more
expensive. Sealed fds should be used instead since they are more efficient
on our side.
We'd first parse all or most of the message, and only then consider if it
is not too large. Also, when encountering a single field over the limit,
we'd still process the preceding part of the message. Let's be stricter,
and check size limits early, and let's refuse the whole message if it fails
any of the size limits.
We allocate a iovec entry for each field, so with many short entries,
our memory usage and processing time can be large, even with a relatively
small message size. Let's refuse overly long entries.
CVE-2018-16865
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1653861
What from I can see, the problem is not from an alloca, despite what the CVE
description says, but from the attack multiplication that comes from creating
many very small iovecs: (void* + size_t) for each three bytes of input message.
This fixes a crash where we would read the commandline, whose length is under
control of the sending program, and then crash when trying to create a stack
allocation for it.
CVE-2018-16864
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1653855
The message actually doesn't get written to disk, because
journal_file_append_entry() returns -E2BIG.
Nitpicky, but we've used a lot of random spacings and names in the past,
but we're trying to be completely consistent on "cgroup vN" now.
Generated by `fd -0 | xargs -0 -n1 sed -ri --follow-symlinks 's/cgroups? ?v?([0-9])/cgroup v\1/gI'`.
I manually ignored places where it's not appropriate to replace (eg.
"cgroup2" fstype and in src/shared/linux).
Continuation of a3ebe5eb62:
in other places we sometimes use assert_se(), and sometimes normal error
handling. sigfillset and sigaddset can only fail if mask is NULL (which cannot
happen if we are passing in a reference), or if the signal number is invalid
(which really shouldn't happen when we are using a constant like SIGCHLD. If
SIGCHLD is invalid, we have a bigger problem). So let's simplify things and
always use assert_se() in those cases.
In sigset_add_many() we could conceivably pass an invalid signal, so let's keep
normal error handling here. The caller can do assert_se() around the
sigprocmask_many() call if appropriate.
'>= 0' is used for consistency with the rest of the codebase.
With cgroupsv1 a zombie process is migrated to root cgroup in all
hierarchies. This was changed for unified hierarchy and /proc/PID/cgroup
reports cgroup to which process belonged before it exited.
Be more suspicious about cgroup path reported by the kernel and use
unit_id provided by the log client if the kernel reports that process is
running in the root cgroup.
Users tend to care the most about 'log->unit_id' mapping so systemctl
status can correctly report last log lines. Also we wouldn't be able to
infer anything useful from "/" path anyway.
See: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2e91fa7f6d451e3ea9fec999065d2fd199691f9d
This splits out a bunch of functions from fileio.c that have to do with
temporary files. Simply to make the header files a bit shorter, and to
group things more nicely.
No code changes, just some rearranging of source files.
Ideally, coccinelle would strip unnecessary braces too. But I do not see any
option in coccinelle for this, so instead, I edited the patch text using
search&replace to remove the braces. Unfortunately this is not fully automatic,
in particular it didn't deal well with if-else-if-else blocks and ifdefs, so
there is an increased likelikehood be some bugs in such spots.
I also removed part of the patch that coccinelle generated for udev, where we
returns -1 for failure. This should be fixed independently.
This way, we can extend the macro a bit with stuff pulled in from other
headers without this affecting everything which pulls in macro.h, which
is one of our most basic headers.
This is just refactoring, no change in behaviour, in prepartion for
later changes.
It's possible for sscanf to receive strings containing all three fields
and not matching the template at the same time. When this happens the
value of k doesn't change, which basically means that process_audit_string
tries to access memory randomly. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't :-)
See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059314.