https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3029 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3039 (backport PR we've used) https://bugs.gentoo.org/878995 https://bugs.gentoo.org/878351 From e2f283d7c8c5ab3aeb2f281a27ec7c0f24b86868 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ray Strode Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:21:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "Handling collision between standard i/o file descriptors and newly created ones" g_unix_open_pipe tries to avoid the standard io fd range when getting pipe fds. This turns out to be a bad idea because certain buggy programs rely on it using that range. This reverts commit d9ba6150909818beb05573f54f26232063492c5b --- a/glib/glib-unix.c +++ b/glib/glib-unix.c @@ -108,17 +108,6 @@ g_unix_open_pipe (int *fds, ecode = pipe2 (fds, pipe2_flags); if (ecode == -1 && errno != ENOSYS) return g_unix_set_error_from_errno (error, errno); - /* Don't reassign pipes to stdin, stdout, stderr if closed meanwhile */ - else if (fds[0] < 3 || fds[1] < 3) - { - int old_fds[2] = { fds[0], fds[1] }; - gboolean result = g_unix_open_pipe (fds, flags, error); - close (old_fds[0]); - close (old_fds[1]); - - if (!result) - g_unix_set_error_from_errno (error, errno); - } else if (ecode == 0) return TRUE; /* Fall through on -ENOSYS, we must be running on an old kernel */ @@ -127,19 +116,6 @@ g_unix_open_pipe (int *fds, ecode = pipe (fds); if (ecode == -1) return g_unix_set_error_from_errno (error, errno); - /* Don't reassign pipes to stdin, stdout, stderr if closed meanwhile */ - else if (fds[0] < 3 || fds[1] < 3) - { - int old_fds[2] = { fds[0], fds[1] }; - gboolean result = g_unix_open_pipe (fds, flags, error); - close (old_fds[0]); - close (old_fds[1]); - - if (!result) - g_unix_set_error_from_errno (error, errno); - - return result; - } if (flags == 0) return TRUE; GitLab From 4526620d8c485f5dfba6ddca33f91670982f82eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ray Strode Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:17:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] glib-unix: Add test to make sure g_unix_open_pipe will intrude standard range Now that we know it's a bad idea to avoid the standard io fd range when getting pipe fds for g_unix_open_pipe, we should test to make sure we don't inadvertently try to do it again. This commit adds that test. --- a/glib/tests/unix.c +++ b/glib/tests/unix.c @@ -24,8 +24,11 @@ #include "config.h" #include "glib-unix.h" +#include "gstdio.h" + #include #include +#include static void test_pipe (void) @@ -52,6 +55,39 @@ test_pipe (void) g_assert (g_str_has_prefix (buf, "hello")); } +static void +test_pipe_stdio_overwrite (void) +{ + GError *error = NULL; + int pipefd[2], ret; + gboolean res; + int stdin_fd; + + stdin_fd = dup (STDIN_FILENO); + g_assert_cmpint (stdin_fd, >, 0); + + g_close (STDIN_FILENO, &error); + g_assert_no_error (error); + + res = g_unix_open_pipe (pipefd, FD_CLOEXEC, &error); + g_assert_no_error (error); + g_assert_true (res); + + g_assert_cmpint (pipefd[0], ==, STDIN_FILENO); + + g_close (pipefd[0], &error); + g_assert_no_error (error); + + g_close (pipefd[1], &error); + g_assert_no_error (error); + + ret = dup2 (stdin_fd, STDIN_FILENO); + g_assert_cmpint (ret, >=, 0); + + g_close (stdin_fd, &error); + g_assert_no_error (error); +} + static void test_error (void) { @@ -337,6 +373,7 @@ main (int argc, g_test_init (&argc, &argv, NULL); g_test_add_func ("/glib-unix/pipe", test_pipe); + g_test_add_func ("/glib-unix/pipe-stdio-overwrite", test_pipe_stdio_overwrite); g_test_add_func ("/glib-unix/error", test_error); g_test_add_func ("/glib-unix/nonblocking", test_nonblocking); g_test_add_func ("/glib-unix/sighup", test_sighup); GitLab