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authorGleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>2013-10-15 13:32:01 +0000
committerGleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>2013-10-15 13:32:01 +0000
commita173916590ffbc512de8d0e99358e91e096f1877 (patch)
treeb53713980023a554633c3c1bf49769e9d964976a /lib/libc
parentaa93041d2c359f497749d46e83db645b1989d44a (diff)
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Make getutxent(3) more robust against bad utx.log files. Whenever we read
zeroes, don't stop processing the file, but read until its end or valid data. In collaboration with: ed
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=256537
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/getutxent.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getutxent.c b/lib/libc/gen/getutxent.c
index 20e8859f6cd7..1679aa43d097 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/getutxent.c
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/getutxent.c
@@ -122,9 +122,20 @@ getfutxent(struct futx *fu)
if (udb == UTXDB_LOG) {
uint16_t len;
+retry:
if (fread(&len, sizeof(len), 1, uf) != 1)
return (-1);
len = be16toh(len);
+ if (len == 0) {
+ /*
+ * XXX: Though zero-size records are valid in theory,
+ * they can never occur in practice. Zero-size records
+ * indicate file corruption. Seek one byte forward, to
+ * see if we can find a record there.
+ */
+ ungetc('\0', uf);
+ goto retry;
+ }
if (len > sizeof *fu) {
/* Forward compatibility. */
if (fread(fu, sizeof(*fu), 1, uf) != 1)