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Nick Kralevich
35778253a5 Fix "faccessat ignores flags"
The kernel system call faccessat() does not have any flags arguments,
so passing flags to the kernel is currently ignored.

Fix the kernel system call so that no flags argument is passed in.

Ensure that we don't support AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW. This non-POSIX
(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/access.html)
flag is a glibc extension, and has non-intuitive, error prone behavior.

For example, consider the following code:

  symlink("foo.is.dangling", "foo");
  if (faccessat(AT_FDCWD, "foo", R_OK, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) == 0) {
    int fd = openat(AT_FDCWD, "foo", O_RDONLY | O_NOFOLLOW);
  }

The faccessat() call in glibc will return true, but an attempt to
open the dangling symlink will end up failing. GLIBC documents this
as returning the access mode of the symlink itself, which will
always return true for any symlink on Linux.

Some further discussions of this are at:

  * http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2014-September/003617.html
  * http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/6952

AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW seems broken by design. I suspect this is why this
function was never added to POSIX. (note that "access" is pretty much
broken by design too, since it introduces a race condition between
check and action). We shouldn't support this until it's clearly
documented by POSIX or we can have it produce intuitive results.

Don't support AT_EACCESS for now. Implementing it is complicated, and
pretty much useless on Android, since we don't have setuid binaries.
See http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=0a05eace163cee9b08571d2ff9d90f5e82d9c228
for how an implementation might look.

Bug: 18867827
Change-Id: I25b86c5020f3152ffa3ac3047f6c4152908d0e04
2015-02-24 13:40:43 -08:00
Elliott Hughes
011e111d29 Ensure __set_errno is still visible on LP32.
The use of the .hidden directive to avoid going via the PLT for
__set_errno had the side-effect of actually making __set_errno
hidden (which is odd because assembler directives don't usually
affect symbols defined in a different file --- you can't even
create a weak reference to a symbol that's defined in a different
file).

This change switches the system call stubs over to a new always-hidden
__set_errno_internal and has a visible __set_errno on LP32 just for
binary compatibility with old NDK apps.

(cherry-pick of 7efad83d430f4d824f2aaa75edea5106f6ff8aae.)

Bug: 17423135
Change-Id: I6b6d7a05dda85f923d22e5ffd169a91e23499b7b
2014-09-08 16:46:50 -07:00
Dan Albert
bc9f9f25bf Make __set_errno hidden in asm.
This fixes the build after the -Bsymbolic change.

Bug: 16853291
Change-Id: I989c9fec3c32e0289ea257a3bd2b7fd2709b6ce2
2014-08-08 15:35:47 -07:00
Elliott Hughes
9abbbdc534 Make mips/mips64 syscall stubs more like the other architectures.
Change-Id: I55f8c1a95f643a6e484f12fbcc25e2c77e55b6b8
2014-02-19 14:54:31 -08:00
Chris Dearman
5043212b76 [MIPS64] Add syscall related files
Change-Id: I2f5d05df0e767538a6fe467ca0a2386325f8b71f
Signed-off-by: Chris Dearman <chris.dearman@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghu Gandham <raghu.gandham@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Duane Sand <duane.sand@imgtec.com>
2014-02-06 15:39:38 -08:00