The bug also affects shared-mime-info. update-mime-database uses readdir and ends up generating an empty database without reporting any errors, causing pixbuf and anything else that relies on the mime database not to work properly.
Same things happens with update-ca-certificates. It calls c_rehash through openssl, which ends up doing nothing. As a result, curl with https and probably anything else that uses SSL fails to work. This probably makes the issue fairly critical for tools that create 32bit environments through qemu-debootstrap or build packages in said environment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805913 Title: readdir() returns NULL (errno=EOVERFLOW) for 32-bit user-static qemu on 64-bit host Status in QEMU: New Bug description: This can be simply reproduced by compiling and running the attached C code (readdir-bug.c) under 32-bit user-static qemu, such as qemu-arm- static: # Setup docker for user-static binfmt docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static:register --reset # Compile the code and run (readdir for / is fine, so create a new directory /test). docker run -v /path/to/qemu-arm-static:/usr/bin/qemu-arm-static -v /path/to/readdir-bug.c:/tmp/readdir-bug.c -it --rm arm32v7/ubuntu:18.10 bash -c '{ apt update && apt install -y gcc; } >&/dev/null && mkdir -p /test && cd /test && gcc /tmp/readdir-bug.c && ./a.out' dir=0xff5b4150 readdir(dir)=(nil) errno=75: Value too large for defined data type Do remember to replace the /path/to/qemu-arm-static and /path/to /readdir-bug.c to the actual paths of the files. The root cause is in glibc: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c;h=6d09a5be7057e2792be9150d3a2c7b293cf6fc34;hb=a5275ba5378c9256d18e582572b4315e8edfcbfb#l87 By C standard, the return type of readdir() is DIR*, in which the inode number and offset are 32-bit integers, therefore, glibc calls getdents64() and check if the inode number and offset fits the 32-bit range, and reports EOVERFLOW if not. The problem here is for 32-bit user-static qemu running on 64-bit host, getdents64 simply passing through the inode number and offset from underlying getdents64 syscall (from 64-bit kernel), which is very likely to not fit into 32-bit range. On real hardware, the 32-bit kernel creates 32-bit inode numbers, therefore works properly. The glibc code makes sense to do the check to be conformant with C standard, therefore ideally it should be a fix on qemu side. I admit this is difficult because qemu has to maintain a mapping between underlying 64-bit inode numbers and 32-bit inode numbers, which would severely hurt the performance. I don't expect this could be fix anytime soon (or even there would be a fix), but it would be worthwhile to surface this issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1805913/+subscriptions
