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Detect badly behaved coredump note helpers

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Detect badly behaved coredump note helpers

Coredump notes depend on being able to invoke dump routines twice; once
in a dry-run mode to get the size of the note, and another to actually
emit the note to the corefile.

When a note helper emits a different length section the second time
around than the length it requested the first time, the kernel produces
a corrupt coredump.

NT_PROCSTAT_FILES output length, when packing kinfo structs, is tied to
the length of filenames corresponding to vnodes in the process' fd table
via vn_fullpath. As vnodes may move around during dump, this is racy.

So:

  • Detect badly behaved notes in putnote() and pad underfilled notes.
  • Add a fail point, debug.fail_point.fill_kinfo_vnode__random_path to exercise the NT_PROCSTAT_FILES corruption. It simply picks random lengths to expand or truncate paths to in fo_fill_kinfo_vnode().
  • Add a sysctl, kern.coredump_pack_fileinfo, to allow users to disable kinfo packing for PROCSTAT_FILES notes. This should avoid both FILES note corruption and truncation, even if filenames change, at the cost of about 1 kiB in padding bloat per open fd. Document the new sysctl in core.5.
  • Fix note_procstat_files to self-limit in the 2nd pass. Since sometimes this will result in a short write, pad up to our advertised size. This addresses note corruption, at the risk of sometimes truncating the last several fd info entries.
  • Fix NT_PROCSTAT_FILES consumers libutil and libprocstat to grok the zero padding.

With suggestions from: bjk, jhb, kib, wblock
Approved by: markj (mentor)
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3548

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Differential Revision
D3548: Detect badly behaved coredump note helpers
Parents
rS287441: MFC r286964
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