Hi George,

George Brown wrote on Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 02:01:05PM +0100:

> In mandocdb.c it appears cmp(1) and rm(1) are executed in a child
> process. It seems that if the logic from these programs were duplicated
> the pledge in mandocdb.c could be further restricted and even not bother
> with forking.

Done as well, see the commit below.

Thanks again for the suggestion,
  Ingo


Log Message:
-----------
Do not fork and exec cmp(1); instead, simply fstat(2), mmap(2), and
compare the files directly, allowing a much stricter pledge(2), at
very little cost: merely 15 additional lines of very simple code.
Suggested by George Brown <321 dot george at gmail dot com> on misc@.

Modified Files:
--------------
    mandoc:
        mandocdb.c

Revision Data
-------------
Index: mandocdb.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/mandocdb.c,v
retrieving revision 1.254
retrieving revision 1.255
diff -Lmandocdb.c -Lmandocdb.c -u -p -r1.254 -r1.255
--- mandocdb.c
+++ mandocdb.c
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@
 #include "config.h"
 
 #include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
-#include <sys/wait.h>
 
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ mandocdb(int argc, char *argv[])
        int               ch, i;
 
 #if HAVE_PLEDGE
-       if (pledge("stdio rpath wpath cpath fattr flock proc exec", NULL) == 
-1) {
+       if (pledge("stdio rpath wpath cpath", NULL) == -1) {
                warn("pledge");
                return (int)MANDOCLEVEL_SYSERR;
        }
@@ -440,15 +440,6 @@ mandocdb(int argc, char *argv[])
                         * The existing database is usable.  Process
                         * all files specified on the command-line.
                         */
-#if HAVE_PLEDGE
-                       if (!nodb) {
-                               if (pledge("stdio rpath wpath cpath fattr 
flock", NULL) == -1) {
-                                       warn("pledge");
-                                       exitcode = (int)MANDOCLEVEL_SYSERR;
-                                       goto out;
-                               }
-                       }
-#endif
                        use_all = 1;
                        for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
                                filescan(argv[i]);
@@ -2119,9 +2110,10 @@ dbprune(struct dba *dba)
 static void
 dbwrite(struct dba *dba)
 {
-       char             tfn[33];
-       int              status;
-       pid_t            child;
+       struct stat      sb1, sb2;
+       char             tfn[33], *cp1, *cp2;
+       off_t            i;
+       int              fd1, fd2;
 
        /*
         * Do not write empty databases, and delete existing ones
@@ -2160,39 +2152,59 @@ dbwrite(struct dba *dba)
                say("", "&%s", tfn);
                return;
        }
-
+       cp1 = cp2 = NULL;
+       fd1 = fd2 = -1;
        (void)strlcat(tfn, "/" MANDOC_DB, sizeof(tfn));
        if (dba_write(tfn, dba) == -1) {
-               exitcode = (int)MANDOCLEVEL_SYSERR;
                say(tfn, "&dba_write");
-               goto out;
-       }
-
-       switch (child = fork()) {
-       case -1:
-               exitcode = (int)MANDOCLEVEL_SYSERR;
-               say("", "&fork cmp");
-               return;
-       case 0:
-               execlp("cmp", "cmp", "-s", tfn, MANDOC_DB, (char *)NULL);
-               say("", "&exec cmp");
-               exit(0);
-       default:
-               break;
-       }
-       if (waitpid(child, &status, 0) == -1) {
-               exitcode = (int)MANDOCLEVEL_SYSERR;
-               say("", "&wait cmp");
-       } else if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
-               exitcode = (int)MANDOCLEVEL_SYSERR;
-               say("", "cmp died from signal %d", WTERMSIG(status));
-       } else if (WEXITSTATUS(status)) {
-               exitcode = (int)MANDOCLEVEL_SYSERR;
-               say(MANDOC_DB,
-                   "Data changed, but cannot replace database");
+               goto err;
        }
+       if ((fd1 = open(MANDOC_DB, O_RDONLY, 0)) == -1) {
+               say(MANDOC_DB, "&open");
+               goto err;
+       }
+       if ((fd2 = open(tfn, O_RDONLY, 0)) == -1) {
+               say(tfn, "&open");
+               goto err;
+       }
+       if (fstat(fd1, &sb1) == -1) {
+               say(MANDOC_DB, "&fstat");
+               goto err;
+       }
+       if (fstat(fd2, &sb2) == -1) {
+               say(tfn, "&fstat");
+               goto err;
+       }
+       if (sb1.st_size != sb2.st_size)
+               goto err;
+       if ((cp1 = mmap(NULL, sb1.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE,
+           fd1, 0)) == NULL) {
+               say(MANDOC_DB, "&mmap");
+               goto err;
+       }
+       if ((cp2 = mmap(NULL, sb2.st_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE,
+           fd2, 0)) == NULL) {
+               say(tfn, "&mmap");
+               goto err;
+       }
+       for (i = 0; i < sb1.st_size; i++)
+               if (cp1[i] != cp2[i])
+                       goto err;
+       goto out;
+
+err:
+       exitcode = (int)MANDOCLEVEL_SYSERR;
+       say(MANDOC_DB, "Data changed, but cannot replace database");
 
 out:
+       if (cp1 != NULL)
+               munmap(cp1, sb1.st_size);
+       if (cp2 != NULL)
+               munmap(cp2, sb2.st_size);
+       if (fd1 != -1)
+               close(fd1);
+       if (fd2 != -1)
+               close(fd2);
        unlink(tfn);
        *strrchr(tfn, '/') = '\0';
        rmdir(tfn);

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