When fuzzing, the following happens:
- we parse 'data' and produce an argv array,
- one of the items in argv is assigned to arg_host,
- the argv array is subsequently freed by strv_freep(), and arg_host has a dangling symlink.
In normal use, argv is static, so arg_host can never become a dangling pointer.
In fuzz-systemctl-parse-argv, if we repeatedly parse the same array, we
have some dangling pointers while we're in the middle of parsing. If we parse
the same array a second time, at the end all the dangling pointers will have been
replaced again. But for a short time, if parsing one of the arguments uses another
argument, we would use a dangling pointer.
Such a case occurs when we have --host=… --boot-loader-entry=help. The latter calls
acquire_bus() which uses arg_host.
I'm not particularly happy with making the code more complicated just for
fuzzing, but I think it's better to resolve this, even if the issue cannot
occur in normal invocations, than to deal with fuzzer reports.
Should fix https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=31714.
This is almost equivalent to 'busctl call-method org.freedesktop.systemd1
/org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager EnqueueMarkedJobs',
but waits for the jobs to finish.
This is just some refactoring: shifting around of code, not change in
codeflow.
This splits up the way too huge systemctl.c in multiple more easily
digestable files. It roughly follows the rule that each family of verbs
gets its own .c/.h file pair, and so do all the compat executable names
we support. Plus three extra files for sysv compat (which existed before
already, but I renamed slightly, to get the systemctl- prefix lik
everything else), a -util file with generic stuff everything uses, and a
-logind file with everything that talks directly to logind instead of
PID1.
systemctl is still a bit too complex for my taste, but I think this way
itc omes in a more digestable bits at least.
No change of behaviour, just reshuffling of some code.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Yu Watanabe
Lennart Poettering