RFR 9: 8166148 Fix for JDK-8165936 broke Solaris builds
Thomas Stüfe
thomas.stuefe at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 20:56:55 UTC 2016
Hi Roger,
Thank you for taking care of this! Fix looks fine.
Kind Regards, Thomas
On Thursday, 15 September 2016, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:
> Please review a fix for build breakage on Solaris.
> The NAME_MAX value does not seem to add much value in this case and is not
> defined on all supported platforms.
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-max-8166148/
> Issue:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166148
>
> Thanks, Roger
>
>
> On 9/15/2016 1:39 PM, Roger Riggs wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> It looks like NAME_MAX is not defined on Solaris and breaks the build on
>> Solaris. [1]
>>
>> An alternative would be to conditionally use PATH_MAX.
>>
>> But I think it would be reasonable to just remove the use of NAME_MAX,
>> since the following
>> code increases the value to at least 1024, which should be safe.
>>
>> If you don't have time to address this, I can propose a fix.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> [1] 8166148 fix for JDK-8165936 broke solaris builds <
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166148>
>>
>>
>> On 9/14/2016 2:34 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> thanks for the reviews. Here is version two:
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/8165936-Potential
>>> -Heap-buffer-overflow-when-seaching-timezone-info-files/
>>> webrev.01/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7
>>> Estuefe/webrevs/8165936-Potential-Heap-buffer-overflow-when-
>>> seaching-timezone-info-files/webrev.01/webrev/>
>>>
>>> Only cosmetic changes:
>>> - made code pre-c99 compatible
>>> - consistently use dirent64
>>> - fix indentation in ifs
>>> - removed black between malloc and cast
>>>
>>> Kind Regards, Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Masayoshi Okutsu <
>>> masayoshi.okutsu at oracle.com <mailto:masayoshi.okutsu at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks good to me. Thank you for fixing this bug!
>>>
>>> Masayoshi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/13/2016 11:49 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Christoph, thanks for your review! Yes, I can remove the
>>> blank.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards, Thomas
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Langer, Christoph
>>> <christoph.langer at sap.com <mailto:christoph.langer at sap.com>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> your change looks good. I'm also forwarding this to
>>> i18n-dev as issues in
>>> TimeZone implementation are mostly handled there.
>>>
>>> One remark: Can you take the opportunity to also remove
>>> the blank between
>>> the cast and malloc in line 150: "(struct dirent64 *)
>>> malloc..."?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I'm no reviewer, so you still need an
>>> official review.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: core-libs-dev
>>> [mailto:core-libs-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net
>>> <mailto:core-libs-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net>] On
>>>
>>> Behalf
>>>
>>> Of Thomas Stüfe
>>> Sent: Dienstag, 13. September 2016 12:54
>>> To: Java Core Libs <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>> <mailto:core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>>
>>> Subject: RFR(xs): 8165936: Potential Heap buffer
>>> overflow when seaching
>>> timezone info files
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> please take a look at this small change:
>>>
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165936
>>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165936>
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stuefe/webrevs/8165936-
>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Estuefe/webrevs/8165936->
>>>
>>> Potential-Heap-buffer-
>>>
>>> overflow-when-seaching-timezone-info-files/webrev.00/webrev/
>>>
>>> readdir_r is used to iterate over the content of a
>>> system directory, but
>>> the buffer passed to it is too small: Its size should
>>> include the size of
>>> the dirent structure itself (minus the d_name member).
>>>
>>> The fix also now checks the return code of pathconf(),
>>> and if pathconf()
>>> returns an error, falls back to the NAME_MAX compile
>>> time constant.
>>> Finally, it imposes a minimum size for the buffer,
>>> because on older
>>>
>>> System
>>>
>>> V systems NAME_MAX may be surprisingly small and
>>> readdir_r will not check
>>> the output buffer size. I think it is better to err on
>>> the safe side
>>>
>>> here.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards, Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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