[newlib-cygwin] Cygwin: exec: don't access cygheap before it's initialized
Corinna Vinschen
corinna@sourceware.org
Thu Dec 1 21:53:20 GMT 2022
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=30add3e6b3e3211b3e2d4a093f45bee5c6e24b8b
commit 30add3e6b3e3211b3e2d4a093f45bee5c6e24b8b
Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
AuthorDate: Thu Dec 1 21:33:14 2022 +0100
Commit: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
CommitDate: Thu Dec 1 22:34:53 2022 +0100
Cygwin: exec: don't access cygheap before it's initialized
This is a long-standing thinko.
When you exec a process, dll_crt0_0 in the child process calls
child_info_spawn::handle_spawn(). handle_spawn() initialises the
cygheap.
Now consider calling strace. Strace is a non-Cygwin process dynamically
loading cygwin1.dll via LoadLibrary. This in turn initializes the DLL:
- dll_crt0_0 finds that the process it attaches to has been exec'd, so
child_info_spawn::handle_spawn() is called.
- If the DLL is being dynamically loaded, handle_spawn() calls
child_info_spawn::get_parent_handle(). This in turn tries to set
the moreinfo->myself_pinfo value inside the cygheap to NULL.
- However, at this time, the cygheap has not yet been initialized. This
only occurs in the cygheap_fixup_in_child() call after get_parent_handle()
returns.
--> SEGV
This thinko never had a negative side effect, because the cygheap was
pre-allocated at DLL load time until commit 2f9b8ff00cce ("Cygwin:
decouple cygheap from Cygwin DLL"). With 2f9b8ff00cce, the cygheap
actually doesn't exist until after the call to cygheap_fixup_in_child().
Fix this problem by moving the assignment after the call to
cygheap_fixup_in_child().
Fixes: 3de7be4c1deb ("* DevNotes: Add entry cgf-000007. [...]")
Fixes: 2f9b8ff00cce ("Cygwin: decouple cygheap from Cygwin DLL")
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Diff:
---
winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc b/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
index e5f19f1f930d..5c5a280cce9d 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
@@ -620,7 +620,6 @@ bool
child_info_spawn::get_parent_handle ()
{
parent = OpenProcess (PROCESS_VM_READ, FALSE, parent_winpid);
- moreinfo->myself_pinfo = NULL;
return !!parent;
}
@@ -632,6 +631,8 @@ child_info_spawn::handle_spawn ()
if (!dynamically_loaded || get_parent_handle ())
{
cygheap_fixup_in_child (true);
+ if (dynamically_loaded)
+ moreinfo->myself_pinfo = NULL;
memory_init ();
}
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