kernel_optimize_test/include/asm-generic
Ulrich Drepper f23513e8d9 Introduce O_CLOEXEC
The problem is as follows: in multi-threaded code (or more correctly: all
code using clone() with CLONE_FILES) we have a race when exec'ing.

   thread #1                       thread #2

   fd=open()

                                   fork + exec

  fcntl(fd,F_SETFD,FD_CLOEXEC)

In some applications this can happen frequently.  Take a web browser.  One
thread opens a file and another thread starts, say, an external PDF viewer.
 The result can even be a security issue if that open file descriptor
refers to a sensitive file and the external program can somehow be tricked
into using that descriptor.

Just adding O_CLOEXEC support to open() doesn't solve the whole set of
problems.  There are other ways to create file descriptors (socket,
epoll_create, Unix domain socket transfer, etc).  These can and should be
addressed separately though.  open() is such an easy case that it makes not
much sense putting the fix off.

The test program:

#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#ifndef O_CLOEXEC
# define O_CLOEXEC 02000000
#endif

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int fd;
  if (argc > 1)
    {
      fd = atol (argv[1]);
      printf ("child: fd = %d\n", fd);
      if (fcntl (fd, F_GETFD) == 0 || errno != EBADF)
        {
          puts ("file descriptor valid in child");
          return 1;
        }
      return 0;
    }

  fd = open ("/proc/self/exe", O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
  printf ("in parent: new fd = %d\n", fd);
  char buf[20];
  snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "%d", fd);
  execl ("/proc/self/exe", argv[0], buf, NULL);
  puts ("execl failed");
  return 1;
}

[kyle@parisc-linux.org: parisc fix]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
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bitops sched: simplify sched_find_first_bit() 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
4level-fixup.h
atomic.h atomic.h: atomic_add_unless as inline. Remove system.h atomic.h circular dependency 2007-05-08 11:15:20 -07:00
audit_change_attr.h
audit_dir_write.h
audit_read.h
audit_signal.h [PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3) 2007-05-11 05:38:25 -04:00
audit_write.h
bitops.h
bug.h Don't call a warnign a bug. It's a warning. 2007-05-24 10:13:43 -07:00
cputime.h
device.h
div64.h [NET]: div64_64 consolidate (rev3) 2007-04-25 22:23:33 -07:00
dma-mapping-broken.h dma-mapping: prevent dma dependent code from linking on !HAS_DMA archs 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
dma-mapping.h
emergency-restart.h
errno-base.h
errno.h
fcntl.h Introduce O_CLOEXEC 2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
futex.h
gpio.h
ide_iops.h
ioctl.h
iomap.h
ipc.h
irq_regs.h
Kbuild Consolidate asm/poll.h 2007-05-11 08:29:34 -07:00
Kbuild.asm
kdebug.h move die notifier handling to common code 2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
libata-portmap.h
local.h local_t: architecture independent extension 2007-05-08 11:15:20 -07:00
memory_model.h
mm_hooks.h [PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction 2007-05-02 19:27:14 +02:00
mman.h
mutex-dec.h
mutex-null.h
mutex-xchg.h
page.h
pci-dma-compat.h
pci.h
percpu.h [PATCH] i386: Use per-cpu variables for GDT, PDA 2007-05-02 19:27:10 +02:00
pgtable-nopmd.h
pgtable-nopud.h
pgtable.h Rework ptep_set_access_flags and fix sun4c 2007-06-16 13:16:16 -07:00
poll.h Consolidate asm/poll.h 2007-05-11 08:29:34 -07:00
resource.h
rtc.h
sections.h
siginfo.h
signal.h
statfs.h
termios.h
tlb.h
topology.h
uaccess.h
unaligned.h
vmlinux.lds.h sparc64: fix alignment bug in linker definition script 2007-05-29 21:29:00 +02:00
xor.h