Bug 74481
| Summary: | It should be documented that using fexecve on a file opened in O_CLOEXEC that is a script cannot possibly work. | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Steven Stewart-Gallus (sstewartgallus00) |
| Component: | man-pages | Assignee: | documentation_man-pages (documentation_man-pages) |
| Status: | RESOLVED CODE_FIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | mtk.manpages |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | Subsystem: | ||
| Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
On 04/20/2014 04:36 AM, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74481 > > Bug ID: 74481 > Summary: It should be documented that using fexecve on a file > opened in O_CLOEXEC that is a script cannot possibly > work. > Product: Documentation > Version: unspecified > Hardware: All > OS: Linux > Status: NEW > Severity: normal > Priority: P1 > Component: man-pages > Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org > Reporter: sstewartgallus00@mylangara.bc.ca > Regression: No > > Consider the following program: > > #include <errno.h> > #include <fcntl.h> > #include <unistd.h> > > int main() > { > int test = open("./test.sh", O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); > if (-1 == test) { > perror("open"); > } > > char * const argv[] = { > (char *) "./test.sh", > NULL > }; > char * const env[] = { NULL }; > fexecve(test, argv, env); > perror("fexecve"); > > return 0; > } > > and the following script: > > #! /usr/bin/env dash > > echo 'hello world!' > > When the C program is run, it cannot work because by the time the interpreter > has the passed in file name "/proc/self/fd/${FD}" it has already been closed. > This is a strange corner case that should be documented. Agreed. I added the text below, under NOTES. Thanks for the report, Steven. Cheers, Michael If .I fd is a file descriptor that refers to an interpreter script and has been marked as close-on-exec (see the discussion of the .BR FD_CLOEXEC in .BR fcntl (2)), .BR fexecve () will fail to execute the script, since, by the time the script interpreter tries to access the script file, .I fd has already been closed. |
Consider the following program: #include <errno.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { int test = open("./test.sh", O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); if (-1 == test) { perror("open"); } char * const argv[] = { (char *) "./test.sh", NULL }; char * const env[] = { NULL }; fexecve(test, argv, env); perror("fexecve"); return 0; } and the following script: #! /usr/bin/env dash echo 'hello world!' When the C program is run, it cannot work because by the time the interpreter has the passed in file name "/proc/self/fd/${FD}" it has already been closed. This is a strange corner case that should be documented.