On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:28:55PM +0600, Max Khon wrote:
> hi, there!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 06:19:50PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> > > Can setgroups return a positive number?  If so, you've just changed
> > > the semantics of the funtion; before, it used to return 0 on 0 or a
> > > positive number.
> > > 
> > No.  setgroups() is a syscall, and as such returns either 0 or -1.
> > 
> > > Also, is removing the _warn() really the only thing you want to
> > > accomplish?  It should probably be seperate.
> > > 
> > I have intended to commit the below patch for almost a year now,
> > just haven't had enough time to actually fo it.  NetBSD runs with
> > this fix since 1999.
> > 
> > Index: initgroups.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/gen/initgroups.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.4
> > diff -u -p -r1.4 initgroups.c
> > --- initgroups.c    2001/08/29 13:52:26     1.4
> > +++ initgroups.c    2001/11/19 16:16:11
> > @@ -56,12 +56,6 @@ initgroups(uname, agroup)
> >     int groups[NGROUPS], ngroups;
> >  
> >     ngroups = NGROUPS;
> > -   if (getgrouplist(uname, agroup, groups, &ngroups) < 0)
> > -           warnx("%s is in too many groups, using first %d",
> > -               uname, ngroups);
> > -   if (setgroups(ngroups, groups) < 0) {
> > -           _warn("setgroups");
> > -           return (-1);
> > -   }
> > -   return (0);
> > +   getgrouplist(uname, agroup, groups, &ngroups);
> > +   return (setgroups(ngroups, groups);

There's a missing closing parenthesis above, sorry.

> > Index: initgroups.3
[...]

> I asked tobez (he is an originator and he took responsibility on this PR)
> and he said that src/ must be audited also -- he said that some initgroups()
> callers do not print error message because initgroups() did this
> previously.
> 
> I'll try to do this before this weekend and I will post combined patch
> to audit@
> 
While this is indeed a good thing to do, this is completely unrelated to
the above mentioned problem, and should be done separately.  Here's the
list of src/ files that do not check the return value of initgroups(3),
and may need to be fixed, but some of them explicitly ignore the result
to indicate the fact they consider this error non-fatal.

libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c
libexec/rexecd/rexecd.c
usr.bin/calendar/calendar.c
usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.c


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