Hi,
There's something wrong about exe symlink that can be found insde
/proc/<pid>/ directories. When the running binary is replaced with
another, using rename() call, the symlink may point to wrong path.
As example let me use sshd. I have running sshd from /usr/sbin. If I
replace /usr/sbin/sshd one could expect to see exe symlink pointing to
'/usr/sbin/sshd (deleted)', it does work this way if the source of
rename() was in the same directory or nested within, thus rename like:
rename("/usr/sbin/foo", "/usr/sbin/sshd")
and
rename("/usr/sbin/bar/sshd", "/usr/sbin/sshd")
ends with a proper '/usr/sbin/sshd (deleted)' symlink.
if however the source was outside of the target directory, the symlink
will point to the source path of rename() calls with 'deleted' sufix.
Here's example:
sbin # for i in `pidof sshd`; do ls -l /proc/$i/exe; done
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 27 18:09 /proc/29047/exe -> /usr/sbin/sshd
sbin # cp sshd /root/foo
sbin # strace -f perl -e 'rename("/root/foo", "/usr/sbin/sshd")' 2>&1 |
grep sshd
rename("/root/foo", "/usr/sbin/sshd") = 0
sbin # for i in `pidof sshd`; do ls -l /proc/$i/exe; done
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 27 18:09 /proc/29047/exe -> /root/sshd
(deleted)
I am unable to find kernel version where it worked as one could presume
thus I cannot offer to bisect commits to find the bad one.
The environment was kernel 3.17.4 x86_64 and the filesystem ext4.
-- Piotr.
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