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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:08:54 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Revisiting LFS64 removal
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 03:03:57PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 08:20:05AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 11:09:48AM +0200, Gabriel Ravier wrote:
> > > On 9/27/22 00:04, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > >On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 09:03:40PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > >>[...]
> > > >>Of course these interfaces should not be used, and we never intended
> > > >>for them to be used just there for linking-compat. So, I've wanted to
> > > >>get rid of them for a long time now.
> > > >>
> > > >>I believe the simplest short-term way is probably going to be just
> > > >>having the dynamic linker symbol lookup error path make one final
> > > >>check before bailing out with an error:
> > > >>
> > > >>- If the symbol to lookup ends in "64"..
> > > >>- ..and it's in a hard-coded list of LFS64-compat symbols..
> > > >>- ..and looking up the name with the "64" removed in libc succeeds..
> > > >>
> > > >>Then use the version without the "64" suffix and go on with relocation
> > > >>processing.
> > > >Proposed patch attached.
> > > >
> > > Looks at though the patch contains a buffer overflow to me, as the
> > > length of `name` appears to be unbounded, but it's then copied into
> > > `buf` which has its size limited to 16, all without checking for `l
> > > >= sizeof buf` until after the copying is done (which might just
> > > even get optimized out by GCC since it knows `l` can't be larger
> > > than buf without UB occuring)
> >
> > Thanks for the catch! It was a late change I made to avoid
> > re-iterating but indeed it's wrong. (Note that strlen, etc. can't be
> > used here because external function calls or even references are not
> > valid in the context this can be called in; strcmp is a macro that
> > expands to a static function call.)
>
> Updated version.
And the follow-up patch which removes the macro interfaces. Note that
there's not necessarily any reason these need to be done together.
Removing the macros is not safe without removing the symbols, due to
autoconf badness, but once the symbols are gone we're free to choose
if/when to remove the macros.
Rich
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