Now with a better subject. I was also wondering about the lack of pledge() other than the newly added one. That goes because dlopen() can do anything?
Lucas <lu...@sexy.is> wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to understand how the pledge execpromises commit worked in ldd > and went to read it, and noticed that there is both a > > if (read(fd, &ehdr, sizeof(ehdr)) < 0) { > > and a > > if (pread(fd, phdr, size, ehdr.e_phoff) != size) { > > In particular, the "read < 0" confused me quite a lot, but the manpage > states that, if the file descriptor _is a regular file_ and there are > enough bytes, it reads to completion. The check for a being a regular > file is already in place, but there is nothing guarding against a short > file, so check instead if read == sizeof(ehdr). > > -Lucas diff refs/heads/master refs/heads/ldd-read-rv commit - 7b0c383483702d9a26856c2b4754abb44950ed82 commit + 862cbcc132ebcd92cb4b44eb1b453ea9ada0bbc3 blob - 9e8c5065cd843ff36d91efcb868b94ffd4c98365 blob + ad624d9cd0e72944b93e951de9b31f57a6258601 --- libexec/ld.so/ldd/ldd.c +++ libexec/ld.so/ldd/ldd.c @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ doit(char *name) return 1; } - if (read(fd, &ehdr, sizeof(ehdr)) < 0) { + if (read(fd, &ehdr, sizeof(ehdr)) != sizeof(ehdr)) { warn("read(%s)", name); close(fd); return 1;