From 9cb6e6ea120cfaf1df9016883012d22fb57d43e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:41:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] rewrite popen to use posix_spawn instead of fragile vfork
 hacks

---
 src/stdio/popen.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/stdio/popen.c b/src/stdio/popen.c
index ed20f5a1..28ff23fd 100644
--- a/src/stdio/popen.c
+++ b/src/stdio/popen.c
@@ -2,28 +2,23 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <spawn.h>
 #include "stdio_impl.h"
-#include "pthread_impl.h"
 #include "syscall.h"
 
-static void dummy_0()
-{
-}
-weak_alias(dummy_0, __acquire_ptc);
-weak_alias(dummy_0, __release_ptc);
-
-pid_t __vfork(void);
+extern char **__environ;
 
 FILE *popen(const char *cmd, const char *mode)
 {
-	int p[2], op, i;
+	int p[2], op, e;
 	pid_t pid;
 	FILE *f;
-	sigset_t old;
-	const char *modes = "rw", *mi = strchr(modes, *mode);
+	posix_spawn_file_actions_t fa;
 
-	if (mi) {
-		op = mi-modes;
+	if (*mode == 'r') {
+		op = 0;
+	} else if (*mode == 'w') {
+		op = 1;
 	} else {
 		errno = EINVAL;
 		return 0;
@@ -36,38 +31,43 @@ FILE *popen(const char *cmd, const char *mode)
 		__syscall(SYS_close, p[1]);
 		return NULL;
 	}
+	FLOCK(f);
 
-	sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, SIGALL_SET, &old);
-	
-	__acquire_ptc();
-	pid = __vfork();
-
-	if (pid) {
-		__release_ptc();
-		__syscall(SYS_close, p[1-op]);
-		sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &old, 0);
-		if (pid < 0) {
-			fclose(f);
-			return 0;
+	/* If the child's end of the pipe happens to already be on the final
+	 * fd number to which it will be assigned (either 0 or 1), it must
+	 * be moved to a different fd. Otherwise, there is no safe way to
+	 * remove the close-on-exec flag in the child without also creating
+	 * a file descriptor leak race condition in the parent. */
+	if (p[1-op] == 1-op) {
+		int tmp = fcntl(F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, 1-op, 0);
+		if (tmp < 0) {
+			e = errno;
+			goto fail;
 		}
-		f->pipe_pid = pid;
-		return f;
+		__syscall(SYS_close, p[1-op]);
+		p[1-op] = tmp;
 	}
 
-	/* See notes in system.c for why this is needed. */
-	for (i=1; i<=8*__SYSCALL_SSLEN; i++) {
-		struct sigaction sa;
-		__libc_sigaction(i, 0, &sa);
-		if (sa.sa_handler!=SIG_IGN && sa.sa_handler!=SIG_DFL) {
-			sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
-			__libc_sigaction(i, &sa, 0);
+	e = ENOMEM;
+	if (!posix_spawn_file_actions_init(&fa)) {
+		if (!posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2(&fa, p[1-op], 1-op)) {
+			if (!(e = posix_spawn(&pid, "/bin/sh", &fa, 0,
+			    (char *[]){ "sh", "-c", (char *)cmd, 0 }, __environ))) {
+				posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy(&fa);
+				f->pipe_pid = pid;
+				if (!strchr(mode, 'e'))
+					fcntl(p[op], F_SETFD, 0);
+				__syscall(SYS_close, p[1-op]);
+				FUNLOCK(f);
+				return f;
+			}
 		}
+		posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy(&fa);
 	}
-	if (dup2(p[1-op], 1-op) < 0) _exit(127);
-	fcntl(1-op, F_SETFD, 0);
-	if (p[0] != 1-op) __syscall(SYS_close, p[0]);
-	if (p[1] != 1-op) __syscall(SYS_close, p[1]);
-	sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &old, 0);
-	execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, (char *)0);
-	_exit(127);
+fail:
+	fclose(f);
+	__syscall(SYS_close, p[1-op]);
+
+	errno = e;
+	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.20.1