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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1805913] Re: readdir() returns NULL (errno=EOVERFLOW)
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[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1805913] Re: readdir() returns NULL (errno=EOVERFLOW) for 32-bit user-static qemu on 64-bit host |
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Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:16:50 -0000 |
The bug also affects shared-mime-info. update-mime-database uses readdir
and ends up generating an empty database without reporting any errors,
causing pixbuf and anything else that relies on the mime database not to
work properly.
Same things happens with update-ca-certificates. It calls c_rehash
through openssl, which ends up doing nothing. As a result, curl with
https and probably anything else that uses SSL fails to work.
This probably makes the issue fairly critical for tools that create
32bit environments through qemu-debootstrap or build packages in said
environment.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805913
Title:
readdir() returns NULL (errno=EOVERFLOW) for 32-bit user-static qemu
on 64-bit host
Status in QEMU:
New
Bug description:
This can be simply reproduced by compiling and running the attached C
code (readdir-bug.c) under 32-bit user-static qemu, such as qemu-arm-
static:
# Setup docker for user-static binfmt
docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static:register --reset
# Compile the code and run (readdir for / is fine, so create a new directory
/test).
docker run -v /path/to/qemu-arm-static:/usr/bin/qemu-arm-static -v
/path/to/readdir-bug.c:/tmp/readdir-bug.c -it --rm arm32v7/ubuntu:18.10 bash -c
'{ apt update && apt install -y gcc; } >&/dev/null && mkdir -p /test && cd
/test && gcc /tmp/readdir-bug.c && ./a.out'
dir=0xff5b4150
readdir(dir)=(nil)
errno=75: Value too large for defined data type
Do remember to replace the /path/to/qemu-arm-static and /path/to
/readdir-bug.c to the actual paths of the files.
The root cause is in glibc:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getdents.c;h=6d09a5be7057e2792be9150d3a2c7b293cf6fc34;hb=a5275ba5378c9256d18e582572b4315e8edfcbfb#l87
By C standard, the return type of readdir() is DIR*, in which the
inode number and offset are 32-bit integers, therefore, glibc calls
getdents64() and check if the inode number and offset fits the 32-bit
range, and reports EOVERFLOW if not.
The problem here is for 32-bit user-static qemu running on 64-bit
host, getdents64 simply passing through the inode number and offset
from underlying getdents64 syscall (from 64-bit kernel), which is very
likely to not fit into 32-bit range. On real hardware, the 32-bit
kernel creates 32-bit inode numbers, therefore works properly.
The glibc code makes sense to do the check to be conformant with C
standard, therefore ideally it should be a fix on qemu side. I admit
this is difficult because qemu has to maintain a mapping between
underlying 64-bit inode numbers and 32-bit inode numbers, which would
severely hurt the performance. I don't expect this could be fix
anytime soon (or even there would be a fix), but it would be
worthwhile to surface this issue.
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