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authorRafael Zalamena <rzalamena@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-10-03 12:30:44 +0000
committerRafael Zalamena <rzalamena@cvs.openbsd.org>2016-10-03 12:30:44 +0000
commitae60c1c6b0fa997314e9c82471a6e0ac2a7f1ea1 (patch)
treed083c7c24dcb1e38bada1c3514b1bfcf60ce2010 /usr.sbin/ntpd/util.c
parent77ba510b67f525bc2922ee3eb2b5df6b0eb4c199 (diff)
Fix a possible bug that will happen with dup2() when oldd == newd. In that
case the dup2() would fail silently and the descriptor would remain with the CLOEXEC flag causing the exec*()d child process to have unexpected behavior. ok guenther@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/ntpd/util.c')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/ntpd/util.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ntpd/util.c b/usr.sbin/ntpd/util.c
index 146834b5eca..b3ba2874a6a 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ntpd/util.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/ntpd/util.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: util.c,v 1.22 2016/09/14 13:20:16 rzalamena Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: util.c,v 1.23 2016/10/03 12:30:43 rzalamena Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Guy <alexander.guy@andern.org>
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
* OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
*/
+#include <fcntl.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
@@ -184,7 +185,11 @@ start_child(char *pname, int cfd, int argc, char **argv)
break;
case 0:
/* Prepare the parent socket and execute. */
- dup2(cfd, PARENT_SOCK_FILENO);
+ if (cfd != PARENT_SOCK_FILENO) {
+ if (dup2(cfd, PARENT_SOCK_FILENO) == -1)
+ fatal("dup2");
+ } else if (fcntl(cfd, F_SETFD, 0) == -1)
+ fatal("fcntl");
execvp(argv[0], nargv);
fatal("%s: execvp", __func__);