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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2009-02-09 15:20:17 +0000
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2009-02-09 15:20:17 +0000
commitf99098cca406369aeff149bd5e70662de934ec08 (patch)
tree66f8afee80134ab251508953e952256eedced225
parentf95ab837929d0b70ecc87e052f58a2038408c54b (diff)
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Use prctl to reenable core dumps when we have setuid to a non-root user.
svn:r18449
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--configure.in4
-rw-r--r--src/common/compat.c16
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 23ceaea4e9..306eacb416 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
Changes in version 0.2.1.13-????? - 2009-0?-??
+ o Minor features:
+ - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
+ is option is set.
Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 22a47b9068..8610c3a524 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ dnl -------------------------------------------------------------------
dnl Check for functions before libevent, since libevent-1.2 apparently
dnl exports strlcpy without defining it in a header.
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(gettimeofday ftime socketpair uname inet_aton strptime getrlimit strlcat strlcpy strtoull getaddrinfo localtime_r gmtime_r memmem strtok_r writev readv flock)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(gettimeofday ftime socketpair uname inet_aton strptime getrlimit strlcat strlcpy strtoull getaddrinfo localtime_r gmtime_r memmem strtok_r writev readv flock prctl)
using_custom_malloc=no
if test x$enable_openbsd_malloc = xyes ; then
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(netdb.h sys/ioctl.h sys/socket.h arpa/inet.h netinet/in.h pwd.h
dnl These headers are not essential
-AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h sys/types.h inttypes.h sys/param.h sys/wait.h limits.h sys/limits.h netinet/in.h arpa/inet.h machine/limits.h syslog.h sys/time.h sys/resource.h inttypes.h utime.h sys/utime.h sys/mman.h netinet/in6.h malloc.h sys/syslimits.h malloc/malloc.h linux/types.h sys/file.h malloc_np.h)
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h sys/types.h inttypes.h sys/param.h sys/wait.h limits.h sys/limits.h netinet/in.h arpa/inet.h machine/limits.h syslog.h sys/time.h sys/resource.h inttypes.h utime.h sys/utime.h sys/mman.h netinet/in6.h malloc.h sys/syslimits.h malloc/malloc.h linux/types.h sys/file.h malloc_np.h sys/prctl.h)
TOR_CHECK_PROTOTYPE(malloc_good_size, HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE_PROTOTYPE,
[#ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c
index fa6967289d..23efe0b656 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.c
+++ b/src/common/compat.c
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_FILE_H
#include <sys/file.h>
#endif
+#if defined(HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H) && defined(__linux__)
+/* Only use the linux prctl; the IRIX prctl is totally different */
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
+#endif
#include "log.h"
#include "util.h"
@@ -1223,6 +1227,18 @@ switch_id(const char *user)
}
have_already_switched_id = 1; /* mark success so we never try again */
+
+#if defined(__linux__) && defined(HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H) && defined(HAVE_PRCTL)
+#ifdef PR_SET_DUMPABLE
+ if (pw->pw_uid) {
+ /* Re-enable core dumps if we're not running as root. */
+ log_info(LD_CONFIG, "Re-enabling coredumps");
+ if (prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1)) {
+ log_warn(LD_CONFIG, "Unable to re-enable coredumps: %s",strerror(errno));
+ }
+ }
+#endif
+#endif
return 0;
#else