This function creates a temporary file, and returns a FILE pointer to
it. This avoids dealing with both a file descriptor and a FILE pointer,
and correctly deallocating the resources on error.
The code before this patch was leaking the file descriptor if fdopen(3)
failed.
Reviewed-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
See asprintf(3):
RETURN VALUE
When successful, these functions return the number of bytes
printed, just like sprintf(3). If memory allocation wasn’t possi‐
ble, or some other error occurs, these functions will return -1,
and the contents of strp are undefined.
Reviewed-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
This will help add other labels in the following commits.
Reviewed-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Resources should be freed in the inverse order of the allocation.
This refactor prepares for the following commits, which fix some leaks.
Reviewed-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
'endptr' is appropriate internally in strtol(3) because it's a pointer
to 'end', and 'end' itself is a pointer to one-after-the-last character
of the numeric string. In other words,
endptr == &end
However, naming the pointer whose address we pass to strtol(3)'s
'endptr' feels wrong, and causes me trouble while parsing the code; I
need to double check the number of dereferences, because something feels
wrong in my head.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
The variable declarations for the buffers have been aligned in this
commit, so that they appear in the diff, making it easier to review.
Some important but somewhat tangent changes included in this commit:
- lib/nss.c: The size was being defined as 65, but then used as 64.
That was a bug, although not an important one; we were just wasting
one byte. Fix that while we replace snprintf() by SNPRINTF(), which
will get the size from sizeof(), and thus will use the real size.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Check for close(2) failure at more places closing a file descriptor
written to.
Also ignore failures with errno set to EINTR (see man:close(2) for
details).
sprintf(3) does not take the destination buffer into account. Although
the destination in these case is large enough, sprintf(3) indicates a
code smell.
Use the xasprintf() wrapper.
Closes#746
Only print the 'unknown item' message to syslog if we are
actually parsing a login.defs. Prefix it with "shadow:" to make
it clear in syslog where it came from.
Also add the source filename to the console message. I'm not
quite clear on the econf API, so not sure whether in that path we
will end up actually having the path, or printing ''.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
asprintf(3) is non-standard, but is provided by GNU, the BSDs, and musl.
That makes it portable enough for us to use.
This function is much simpler than the burdensome code for allocating
the right size. Being simpler, it's thus safer.
I took the opportunity to fix the style to my preferred one in the
definitions of variables used in these calls, and also in the calls to
free(3) with these pointers. That isn't gratuituous, but has a reason:
it makes those appear in the diff for this patch, which helps review it.
Oh, well, I had an excuse :)
Reviewed-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Documentation:
- Correct the comment documenting the function:
write_full() doesn't write "up to" count bytes (which is write(2)'s
behavior, and exactly what this function is designed to avoid), but
rather exactly count bytes (on success).
- While fixing the documentation, take the time to add a man-page-like
comment as in other APIs. Especially, since we'll have to document
a few other changes from this patch, such as the modified return
values.
- Partial writes are still possible on error. It's the caller's
responsibility to handle that possibility.
API:
- In write(2), it's useful to know how many bytes were transferred,
since it can have short writes. In this API, since it either writes
it all or fails, that value is useless, and callers only want to know
if it succeeded or not. Thus, just return 0 or -1.
Implementation:
- Use `== -1` instead of `< 0` to check for write(2) syscall errors.
This is wisdom from Michael Kerrisk. This convention is useful
because it more explicitly tells maintainers that the only value
which can lead to that path is -1. Otherwise, a maintainer of the
code might be confused to think that other negative values are
possible. Keep it simple.
- The path under `if (res == 0)` was unreachable, since the loop
condition `while (count > 0)` precludes that possibility. Remove the
dead code.
- Use a temporary variable of type `const char *` to avoid a cast.
- Rename `res`, which just holds the result from write(2), to `w`,
which more clearly shows that it's just a very-short-lived variable
(by it's one-letter name), and also relates itself more to write(2).
I find it more readable.
- Move the definition of `w` to the top of the function. Now that the
function is significantly shorter, the lifetime of the variable is
clearer, and I find it more readable this way.
Use:
- Also use `== -1` to check errors.
Cc: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
- Invert conditional to reduce indentation.
- Reduce use of whitespace and newlines while unindenting.
- Reorder variable declarations.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
- Invert conditional to reduce indentation.
- Rewrite while loop calling strtok(3) as a for loop. This allows
doing more simplification inside the loop (see next commit).
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
- Fix indentation. It was very broken.
- Move variable declaration to the top of the block in which it's used.
- Reduce use of whitespace and newlines.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
- Invert conditional, to reduce indentation.
- Reduce use of whitespace and newlines while unindenting.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
- Merge nested conditionals into a single if, to reduce indentation.
- Indent (1 SP) nested preprocessor conditionals.
- Reduce use of whitespace and newlines while unindenting.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
If we consider simple objects as arrays of size 1, we can considerably
simplify these APIs, merging the *ARRAY and the non-array variants.
That will produce more readable code, since lines will be shorter (by
not having ARRAY in the macro names, as all macros will consistently
handle arrays), and the allocated size will be also more explicit.
The syntax will now be of the form:
p = MALLOC(42, foo_t); // allocate 42 elements of type foo_t.
p = MALLOC(1, bar_t); // allocate 1 element of type foo_t.
The _array() allocation functions should _never_ be called directly, and
instead these macros should be used.
The non-array functions (e.g., malloc(3)) still have their place, but
are limited to allocating structures with flexible array members. For
any other uses, the macros should be used.
Thus, we don't use any array or ARRAY variants in any code any more, and
they are only used as implementation details of these macros.
Link: <https://software.codidact.com/posts/285898/288023#answer-288023>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
alloca(3) fails silently if not enough memory can be allocated on the
stack. Use checked dynamic allocation instead.
Also drop unnecessary manual NUL assignment, ensured by snprintf(3).
Co-developed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
The tools newgrp and useradd expect waitpid to behave as described in
its manual page. But the notes indicate that if SIGCHLD is ignored,
waitpid behaves differently.
A user could set SIGCHLD to ignore before starting newgrp through exec.
Children of newgrp would not become zombies and their PIDs could be
reassigned before newgrp could call kill with the child pid and SIGCONT.
The useradd tool is not installed setuid, but I have added the default
there as well (copied from vipw).
Signed-off-by: Samanta Navarro <ferivoz@riseup.net>
Use of these macros, apart from the benefits mentioned in the commit
that adds the macros, has some other good side effects:
- Consistency in getting the size of the object from sizeof(type),
instead of a mix of sizeof(type) sometimes and sizeof(*p) other
times.
- More readable code: no casts, and no sizeof(), so also shorter lines
that we don't need to cut.
- Consistency in using array allocation calls for allocations of arrays
of objects, even when the object size is 1.
Cc: Valentin V. Bartenev <vbartenev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
- Every non-const pointer converts automatically to void *.
- Every pointer converts automatically to void *.
- void * converts to any other pointer.
- const void * converts to any other const pointer.
- Integer variables convert to each other.
I changed the declaration of a few variables in order to allow removing
a cast.
However, I didn't attempt to edit casts inside comparisons, since they
are very delicate. I also kept casts in variadic functions, since they
are necessary, and in allocation functions, because I have other plans
for them.
I also changed a few casts to int that are better as ptrdiff_t.
This change has triggered some warnings about const correctness issues,
which have also been fixed in this patch (see for example src/login.c).
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
In variadic functions we still do the cast. In POSIX, it's not
necessary, since NULL is required to be of type 'void *', and 'void *'
is guaranteed to have the same alignment and representation as 'char *'.
However, since ISO C still doesn't mandate that, and moreover they're
doing dubious stuff by adding nullptr, let's be on the cautious side.
Also, C++ requires that NULL is _not_ 'void *', but either plain 0 or
some magic stuff.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
When useradd sends its ADD_USER event, it is filling in the id field. This is not yet written to disk. When auditd sees the event and the log format is enriched, auditd tries to lookup the user name but it does not exist. This causes the event to never be resolvable since ausearch relies on the lookup information attached by auditd.
The fix is to not send the id information for any event until after close_files() is called. Just the acct field is all that is
Patch by Steve Grubb (afaik).
Reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1713432
Allow supplementary groups to be set via the /etc/default/useradd config
file. Allowing an administrator to set additonal groups via the GROUPS
configurable and control the default behaviour of useradd.
Alejandro Colomar
Skyler Ferrante
Tobias Stoeckmann
Christian Göttsche
Serge Hallyn
Johannes Segitz
Iker Pedrosa
Samanta Navarro
Michael Vetter
Andy Zaugg