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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:15:06 -0800
From: enh <enh@...gle.com>
To: libc-coord@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Subject: Re: Lifetime of object returned by readdir
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:03 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com> wrote:
> * Rich Felker:
>
> > However, as part of resolving an application UAF bug where the dirent
> > was used after closedir, I realized that the specification fails to
> > mention closedir of the directory stream as a condition that can end
> > the lifetime of the dirent object. This seems like an omission, and
> > like it does not admit any implementation without severe memory leaks
> > -- the last dirent returned for each stream would have to be preserved
> > indefinitely unless the thread that called readdir exited.
> >
> > I'd like to push to have this fixed (adding closedir as a condition
> > that ends the lifetime) as part of making readdir thread-safe, but
> > before opening a new Austin Group issue or following up on the
> > existing one there I'd like to make sure we're on the same page.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me. rewinddir and seekdir should perhaps
>
POSIX already explicitly says that seekdir() affects the _next_ readdir().
the "[rewinddir()] shall also cause the directory stream to refer to the
current state of the corresponding directory, as a call to opendir() would
have done" on the rewinddir() page is interesting but i'm interpreting that
(and i believe existing implementations interpret that) as applying to the
_next_ readdir() call.
> invalidate readdir-returned pointers, too. It might be possible to
> delay their operation to their next readdir call, but it might
> needlessly complicate the implementation.
does anyone have an implementation where rewinddir()/seekdir() actually
invalidate the previous readdir()? seems unlikely?
> And for completeness, also
> mention any access to the underlying file descriptor.
>
good point.
> Thanks,
> Florian
>
>
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