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authorJohn Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>2018-06-20 07:29:14 +0200
committerJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2018-06-27 18:13:03 +0200
commitb31e99887b17f513289fb11227b2484504e85b6c (patch)
treefd4b868e415db4de0577495eabf48e6bf814d408 /del.png
parent255b78ff5291cef79978b025c9872f801de89e23 (diff)
cache: close race window when unlocking slots
We use POSIX advisory record locks to control access to cache slots, but
these have an unhelpful behaviour in that they are released when any
file descriptor referencing the file is closed by this process.

Mostly this is okay, since we know we won't be opening the lock file
anywhere else, but there is one place that it does matter: when we
restore stdout we dup2() over a file descriptor referring to the file,
thus closing that descriptor.

Since we restore stdout before unlocking the slot, this creates a window
during which the slot content can be overwritten.  The fix is reasonably
straightforward: simply restore stdout after unlocking the slot, but the
diff is a bit bigger because this requires us to move the temporary
stdout FD into struct cache_slot.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Reviewed-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
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