From: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>
To: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@m4x.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libsemanage: genhomedircon - improve handling large groups
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:56:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pjd1s49noiu.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfZ7=kFKx6cz1Tj1impdii4iDKfKtC_LffBTW3Rfg1fEJkHzA@mail.gmail.com> (Nicolas Iooss's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:02:18 +0100")
Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@m4x.org> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:20 PM Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> getgrnam_r() uses a preallocated buffer to store a structure containing
>> the broken-out fields of the record in the group database. The size of
>> this buffer is usually sysconf(_SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX) == 1024 and it is
>> not enough for groups with a large number of users. In these cases,
>> getgrnam_r() returns -1 and sets errno to ERANGE and the caller can
>> retry with a larger buffer.
>>
>> Fixes:
>> $ semanage login -a -s user_u -r s0-s0:c1.c2 '%largegroup'
>> libsemanage.semanage_direct_commit: semanage_genhomedircon returned error code -1. (Numerical result out of range).
>> OSError: Numerical result out of range
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>
>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@m4x.org>
Merged.
>> ---
>> libsemanage/src/genhomedircon.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/libsemanage/src/genhomedircon.c b/libsemanage/src/genhomedircon.c
>> index 591941fb..e5f8d371 100644
>> --- a/libsemanage/src/genhomedircon.c
>> +++ b/libsemanage/src/genhomedircon.c
>> @@ -1077,10 +1077,24 @@ static int get_group_users(genhomedircon_settings_t * s,
>>
>> const char *grname = selogin + 1;
>>
>> - if (getgrnam_r(grname, &grstorage, grbuf,
>> - (size_t) grbuflen, &group) != 0) {
>> - goto cleanup;
>> + errno = 0;
>> + while (
>> + (retval = getgrnam_r(grname, &grstorage, grbuf, (size_t) grbuflen, &group)) != 0 &&
>> + errno == ERANGE
>> + ) {
>> + char *new_grbuf;
>> + grbuflen *= 2;
>> + if (grbuflen < 0)
>> + /* the member list could exceed 2Gb on a system with a 32-bit CPU (where
>> + * sizeof(long) = 4) - if this ever happened, the loop would become infinite. */
>> + goto cleanup;
>> + new_grbuf = realloc(grbuf, grbuflen);
>> + if (new_grbuf == NULL)
>> + goto cleanup;
>> + grbuf = new_grbuf;
>> }
>> + if (retval != 0)
>> + goto cleanup;
>>
>> if (group == NULL) {
>> ERR(s->h_semanage, "Can't find group named %s\n", grname);
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-15 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-06 19:45 [PATCH] libsemanage: genhomedircon - improve handling large groups Petr Lautrbach
2019-02-07 21:19 ` Nicolas Iooss
2019-02-08 16:46 ` Petr Lautrbach
2019-02-12 15:20 ` [PATCH v2] " Petr Lautrbach
2019-02-12 21:02 ` Nicolas Iooss
2019-02-15 13:56 ` Petr Lautrbach [this message]
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