[OE-core] [PATCH] glibc: fix Segmentation fault in gethostid.c

mingli.yu at windriver.com mingli.yu at windriver.com
Tue Sep 18 09:40:42 UTC 2018


From: Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu at windriver.com>

When run test program hostid, it encounters
Segmentation fault as hp is NULL.

 # cat /mybuild/hostid.c
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <unistd.h>

 int
 main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
    long hostid;
    hostid = gethostid();
    printf("the hostid is %ld\n", hostid);

 }

 # gcc -o /mybuild/hostid /mybuild/hostid.c
 # /mybuild/hostid
 Segmentation fault
 # gdb /mybuild/hostid
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 Reading symbols from /root/hostid...done.
 (gdb) r
 Starting program: /root/hostid

 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
 0x00007ffff7f0330e in gethostid () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c:125
 125	  memcpy (&in, hp->h_addr,
 (gdb) bt
 #0  0x00007ffff7f0330e in gethostid () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c:125
 #1  0x0000555555555159 in main ()

Signed-off-by: Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu at windriver.com>
---
 .../0001-gethostid.c-check-the-value-of-hp.patch   | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.28.bb              |  1 +
 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc/0001-gethostid.c-check-the-value-of-hp.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc/0001-gethostid.c-check-the-value-of-hp.patch b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc/0001-gethostid.c-check-the-value-of-hp.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c0cd003330
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc/0001-gethostid.c-check-the-value-of-hp.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+From 84cc79a003cf1a29e0a45ee76b67a3800d9e412e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu at windriver.com>
+Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 07:29:27 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] gethostid.c: check the value of hp
+
+Fix Segmentation fault in gethostid.c
+
+When run test program hostid, it encounters
+Segmentation fault as hp is NULL.
+
+  # cat /mybuild/hostid.c
+  #include <stdio.h>
+  #include <unistd.h>
+
+  int
+  main(int argc, char *argv[])
+  {
+    long hostid;
+    hostid = gethostid();
+    printf("the hostid is %ld\n", hostid);
+  }
+ 
+  # gcc -o /mybuild/hostid /mybuild/hostid.c
+  # /mybuild/hostid
+  Segmentation fault
+  # gdb /mybuild/hostid
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+   Reading symbols from /root/hostid...done.
+   (gdb) r
+   Starting program: /root/hostid
+ 
+   Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
+   0x00007ffff7f0330e in gethostid () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c:125
+   125      memcpy (&in, hp->h_addr,
+   (gdb) bt
+    #0  0x00007ffff7f0330e in gethostid () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c:125
+    #1  0x0000555555555159 in main ()
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted[https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23679]
+
+Signed-off-by: Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu at windriver.com>
+---
+ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c
+index 2e20f034dc..5904b61c40 100644
+--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c
++++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c
+@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ gethostid (void)
+     {
+       int ret = __gethostbyname_r (hostname, &hostbuf,
+ 				   tmpbuf.data, tmpbuf.length, &hp, &herr);
+-      if (ret == 0)
++      if (ret == 0 && hp != NULL)
+ 	break;
+       else
+ 	{
+-- 
+2.13.3
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.28.bb b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.28.bb
index 0ebbaf9610..0a8fa0c25f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.28.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc_2.28.bb
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GLIBC_GIT_URI};branch=${SRCBRANCH};name=glibc \
            file://0028-bits-siginfo-consts.h-enum-definition-for-TRAP_HWBKP.patch \
            file://0029-localedef-add-to-archive-uses-a-hard-coded-locale-pa.patch \
            file://0030-intl-Emit-no-lines-in-bison-generated-files.patch \
+           file://0001-gethostid.c-check-the-value-of-hp.patch \
 "
 
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-- 
2.13.3




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