Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:
>>
>>> It turns out there's an obfuscated self-reference to fontconfig's store
>>> directory.  Here's an excerpt of the output of "hexdump -C
>>> libfontconfig.so.1.9.0":
>>>
>>> 0000cca0  00 48 b9 2f 67 6e 75 2f  73 74 6f c6 40 48 00 45  
>>> |.H./gnu/sto.@H.E|
>>> 0000ccb0  31 e4 48 89 08 48 b9 72  65 2f 62 34 38 34 6e 48  
>>> |1.H..H.re/b484nH|
>>> 0000ccc0  89 48 08 48 b9 76 6e 39  6e 6e 72 33 64 48 89 48  
>>> |.H.H.vn9nnr3dH.H|
>>> 0000ccd0  10 48 b9 64 63 6c 70 7a  32 66 6d 48 89 48 18 48  
>>> |.H.dclpz2fmH.H.H|
>>> 0000cce0  b9 61 39 79 78 6d 69 6d  67 48 89 48 20 48 b9 32  |.a9yxmimgH.H 
>>> H.2|
>>> 0000ccf0  6a 6a 2d 66 6f 6e 74 48  89 48 28 48 b9 63 6f 6e  
>>> |jj-fontH.H(H.con|
>>> 0000cd00  66 69 67 2d 32 48 89 48  30 48 b9 2e 31 31 2e 39  
>>> |fig-2H.H0H..11.9|
>>> 0000cd10  34 2f 65 48 89 48 38 48  b9 74 63 2f 66 6f 6e 74  
>>> |4/eH.H8H.tc/font|
>>> 0000cd20  73 48 89 48 40 48 8b 04  24 48 8b 18 48 89 c5 48  
>>> |sH.H@H..$H..H..H|
>>
>> It turns out that this is part of the compiled x86_64 code for
>> 'FcConfigFilename' in src/fccfg.c, which copies a compile-time string
>> constant, 8 bytes at a time, into a buffer:
>>
>> $ objdump -d libfontconfig.so.1.9.0 | grep -B1 -A35 '48 b9 2f 67 6e 75 2f'
>>     cc9b:    0f 84 3f 01 00 00       je     cde0 <FcConfigFilename+0x2d0>
>>     cca1:    48 b9 2f 67 6e 75 2f    movabs $0x6f74732f756e672f,%rcx
>>     cca8:    73 74 6f 
>>     ccab:    c6 40 48 00             movb   $0x0,0x48(%rax)
>>     ccaf:    45 31 e4                xor    %r12d,%r12d
>>     ccb2:    48 89 08                mov    %rcx,(%rax)
>>     ccb5:    48 b9 72 65 2f 62 34    movabs $0x6e343834622f6572,%rcx
>>     ccbc:    38 34 6e 
>>     ccbf:    48 89 48 08             mov    %rcx,0x8(%rax)
>>     ccc3:    48 b9 76 6e 39 6e 6e    movabs $0x6433726e6e396e76,%rcx
>>     ccca:    72 33 64 
>>     cccd:    48 89 48 10             mov    %rcx,0x10(%rax)
>>     ccd1:    48 b9 64 63 6c 70 7a    movabs $0x6d66327a706c6364,%rcx
>>     ccd8:    32 66 6d 
>>     ccdb:    48 89 48 18             mov    %rcx,0x18(%rax)
>>     ccdf:    48 b9 61 39 79 78 6d    movabs $0x676d696d78793961,%rcx
>>     cce6:    69 6d 67 
>>     cce9:    48 89 48 20             mov    %rcx,0x20(%rax)
>>     cced:    48 b9 32 6a 6a 2d 66    movabs $0x746e6f662d6a6a32,%rcx
>>     ccf4:    6f 6e 74 
>>     ccf7:    48 89 48 28             mov    %rcx,0x28(%rax)
>>     ccfb:    48 b9 63 6f 6e 66 69    movabs $0x322d6769666e6f63,%rcx
>>     cd02:    67 2d 32 
>>     cd05:    48 89 48 30             mov    %rcx,0x30(%rax)
>>     cd09:    48 b9 2e 31 31 2e 39    movabs $0x652f34392e31312e,%rcx
>>     cd10:    34 2f 65 
>>     cd13:    48 89 48 38             mov    %rcx,0x38(%rax)
>>     cd17:    48 b9 74 63 2f 66 6f    movabs $0x73746e6f662f6374,%rcx
>>     cd1e:    6e 74 73 
>>     cd21:    48 89 48 40             mov    %rcx,0x40(%rax)
>>     cd25:    48 8b 04 24             mov    (%rsp),%rax
>>     cd29:    48 8b 18                mov    (%rax),%rbx
>>     cd2c:    48 89 c5                mov    %rax,%rbp
>>     cd2f:    48 85 db                test   %rbx,%rbx
>>     cd32:    48 89 df                mov    %rbx,%rdi
>>     cd35:    75 16                   jne    cd4d <FcConfigFilename+0x23d>
>>     cd37:    eb 44                   jmp    cd7d <FcConfigFilename+0x26d>
>>
>> So far, I've not been able to find any evidence of the fontconfig code
>> doing anything strange here.  I strongly suspect that GCC is generating
>> this code, most likely due to an inlinable string/memory copy function
>> where the source is a string literal.
>
> I've confirmed this.  After building this package manually, "objdump -d
> --source src/.libs/fccfg.o" reveals that the corresponding source code
> is:
>
>     dir = (FcChar8 *) FONTCONFIG_PATH;
>     path[i] = malloc (strlen ((char *) dir) + 1);
>     if (!path[i])
>       goto bail1;
>     strcpy ((char *) path[i], (const char *) dir);
>
> It is part of 'FcConfigGetPath', inlined into 'FcConfigFilename', in
> src/fccfg.c.  -DFONTCONFIG_PATH='"$(BASECONFIGDIR)"' is one of the flags
> passed to GCC, via AM_CPPFLAGS in src/Makefile.am.
>
>> Obviously, this could be a serious problem for Guix (and Nix), since it
>> suggests that we may not be able to continue with our simplistic
>> assumption that references to the store in compiled code will be easy to
>> find and replace.

To get an idea of how widespread this problem is, I searched for
occurrences of /gnu/sto[^r] on my GNOME/Xfce desktop system:

$ LC_ALL=C grep '/gnu/sto[^r]' --recursive /gnu/store/
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