Re: commit 94fc5d9: chromium-sandbox core dumped

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Aug 19 2013 - 16:25:18 EST


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The following commit breaks chromium on my machine ("proc:
> return on proc_readdir error")
>
> Chromium breaks with:
>
> [269:269:0819/203839:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(195)] Check
> failed: pid_0. Did not find zygote process (using sandbox binary
> /usr/lib/chromium/chromium-sandbox)
> Aborted (core dumped)

Hmm. I think that Richard's patch is correct, but looking at all this,
it looks like the return value of proc_readdir() is broken.

The comment above proc_readdir_de() says

* This returns non-zero if at EOF, so that the /proc
* root directory can use this and check if it should
* continue with the <pid> entries..

which is exactly what it should do. But the *code* does no such thing,
and instead always returns 0, breaking Richards patch.

I suspect that last "return 0" at the end should be "return 1". Does
that fix things for you? Untested.

Al? It looks to me like commit f0c3b5093add ("[readdir] convert
procfs") messed up when it changed proc_readdir_de() to not have all
those "goto out" things any more...

Linus
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