On Wed, 29 Jun 2016, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 07:05:15 -0600, "Todd C. Miller" wrote:
> > Don't you need to make a copy of dp->d_name?  Returning dp->d_name
> > after closedir() seems dangerous.
> 
> Since closedir() frees dd_buf this would result in a user after free.

Yep.  Too much programming in a garbage collected language recently, I 
guess.  :-)

Revised diff below.

Philip Guenther

Index: gen/devname.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /data/src/openbsd/src/lib/libc/gen/devname.c,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -p -r1.12 devname.c
--- gen/devname.c       13 Sep 2015 08:31:47 -0000      1.12
+++ gen/devname.c       5 Jul 2016 05:20:49 -0000
@@ -37,14 +37,13 @@
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <paths.h>
 #include <stdbool.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
 static char *
 devname_nodb(dev_t dev, mode_t type)
 {
-       static char buf[sizeof(_PATH_DEV) + NAME_MAX];
+       static char buf[NAME_MAX + 1];
        char *name = NULL;
        struct dirent *dp;
        struct stat sb;
@@ -52,19 +51,14 @@ devname_nodb(dev_t dev, mode_t type)
 
        if ((dirp = opendir(_PATH_DEV)) == NULL)
                return (NULL);
-       if (strlcpy(buf, _PATH_DEV, sizeof(buf)) >= sizeof(buf))
-               return (NULL);
        while ((dp = readdir(dirp)) != NULL) {
                if (dp->d_type != DT_UNKNOWN && DTTOIF(dp->d_type) != type)
                        continue;
-               buf[sizeof(_PATH_DEV) - 1] = '\0';
-               if (strlcat(buf, dp->d_name, sizeof(buf)) >= sizeof(buf))
-                       continue;
-               if (lstat(buf, &sb) == -1)
-                       continue;
-               if (sb.st_rdev != dev || (sb.st_mode & S_IFMT) != type)
+               if (fstatat(dirfd(dirp), dp->d_name, &sb, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)
+                   || sb.st_rdev != dev || (sb.st_mode & S_IFMT) != type)
                        continue;
-               name = buf + sizeof(_PATH_DEV) - 1;
+               strlcpy(buf, dp->d_name, sizeof(buf));
+               name = buf;
                break;
        }
        closedir(dirp);

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