On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 04:28:03PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 06:01:58PM +0200, Florian Ziesche wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this patch increases the buffer size by one in get_lfs64() so that it
> > works with posix_fallocate64.
> > "posix_fallocate64" is 17 characters long, so 16 is one too short.
> > 
> > Simplified example:
> > before: https://compiler-explorer.com/z/4qcPhcaWr
> > after: https://compiler-explorer.com/z/scGvhddKW
> > 
> > ---
> > diff --git a/ldso/dynlink.c b/ldso/dynlink.c
> > index 42687da2..8707ae1c 100644
> > --- a/ldso/dynlink.c
> > +++ b/ldso/dynlink.c
> > @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static struct symdef get_lfs64(const char *name)
> >          "stat\0statfs\0statvfs\0tmpfile\0truncate\0versionsort\0"
> >          "__fxstat\0__fxstatat\0__lxstat\0__xstat\0";
> >      size_t l;
> > -    char buf[16];
> > +    char buf[17];
> >      for (l=0; name[l]; l++) {
> >          if (l >= sizeof buf) goto nomatch;
> >          buf[l] = name[l];
> 
> Thanks for catching this. I questioned whether the 17 is sufficient,
> but indeed the buffer is never nul terminated except when removing the
> 64, so it should be ok.
> 
> I think I'll apply your patch as a direct fix, but the whole copying
> operation is unnecessary and I'll probably remove it. It works just as
> well to strncmp and pass p instead of buf to find_sym, so that a
> mutable copy of the name to lookup is never needed.

Applied. Does the attached look ok to get rid of the copy entirely? It
passed basic smoke testing here.