It is in general unsafe to start a program with one or more of file
descriptors 0/1/2 closed. Karl Chen for example noticed that stat_command
does this in order to rename a pipe file descriptor to 0:
dup2(from, 0);
close(from);
... but if stdin was closed (for example) from == 0, so that
dup2(0, 0);
close(0);
just ends up closing the pipe. Another extremely rare but nasty problem
would occur if an "important" file ends up in file descriptor 2, and is
corrupted by a call to die().
Fixing this in git was considered to be overkill, so this patch works
around it only for git-shell. The fix is simply to open all the "low"
descriptors to /dev/null in main.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Stephen R. van den Berg <srb@cuci.nl>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
{
char *prog;
struct commands *cmd;
+ int devnull_fd;
+
+ /*
+ * Always open file descriptors 0/1/2 to avoid clobbering files
+ * in die(). It also avoids not messing up when the pipes are
+ * dup'ed onto stdin/stdout/stderr in the child processes we spawn.
+ */
+ devnull_fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
+ while (devnull_fd >= 0 && devnull_fd <= 2)
+ devnull_fd = dup(devnull_fd);
+ if (devnull_fd == -1)
+ die("opening /dev/null failed (%s)", strerror(errno));
+ close (devnull_fd);
/*
* Special hack to pretend to be a CVS server