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-rw-r--r--changes/cid_4505
-rw-r--r--src/common/compat.c16
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/changes/cid_450 b/changes/cid_450
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2045fca239
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/cid_450
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+ o Minor bugfixes:
+ - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
+ about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
+ could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
+ Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c
index 39651084a0..9533c115b6 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.c
+++ b/src/common/compat.c
@@ -1080,7 +1080,8 @@ log_credential_status(void)
/* Read, effective and saved GIDs */
gid_t rgid, egid, sgid;
/* Supplementary groups */
- gid_t sup_gids[NGROUPS_MAX + 1];
+ gid_t *sup_gids = NULL;
+ int sup_gids_size;
/* Number of supplementary groups */
int ngids;
@@ -1126,9 +1127,19 @@ log_credential_status(void)
#endif
/* log supplementary groups */
- if ((ngids = getgroups(NGROUPS_MAX + 1, sup_gids)) < 0) {
+ sup_gids_size = 64;
+ sup_gids = tor_malloc(sizeof(gid_t) * 64);
+ while ((ngids = getgroups(sup_gids_size, sup_gids)) < 0 &&
+ errno == EINVAL &&
+ sup_gids_size < NGROUPS_MAX) {
+ sup_gids_size *= 2;
+ sup_gids = tor_realloc(sup_gids, sizeof(gid_t) * sup_gids_size);
+ }
+
+ if (ngids < 0) {
log_warn(LD_GENERAL, "Error getting supplementary GIDs: %s",
strerror(errno));
+ tor_free(sup_gids);
return -1;
} else {
int i, retval = 0;
@@ -1158,6 +1169,7 @@ log_credential_status(void)
tor_free(cp);
});
smartlist_free(elts);
+ tor_free(sup_gids);
return retval;
}