blockdev-util: fix access to possibly invalidated dirent struct

Let's copy out the string we need from the dirent, there's no reason to
believe the dirent struct might live for longer than one loop iteration.

(cherry picked from commit c68fc3514ddd53abd7ecfd22afb07aa0ad785c5c)

diff --git a/src/basic/blockdev-util.c b/src/basic/blockdev-util.c
index 0f1e30ccd971ce6a2880858cf79a5ce2874df334..2f3f1aecc8a99c277422940abebabc47d46db13f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/basic/blockdev-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/blockdev-util.c
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ int block_get_originating(dev_t dt, dev_t *ret) {
         _cleanup_closedir_ DIR *d = NULL;
         _cleanup_free_ char *t = NULL;
         char p[SYS_BLOCK_PATH_MAX("/slaves")];
-        struct dirent *de, *found = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ char *first_found = NULL;
+        struct dirent *de;
         const char *q;
         dev_t devt;
         int r;
@@ -115,20 +116,22 @@ int block_get_originating(dev_t dt, dev_t *ret) {
                 if (!IN_SET(de->d_type, DT_LNK, DT_UNKNOWN))
                         continue;
 
-                if (found) {
+                if (first_found) {
                         _cleanup_free_ char *u = NULL, *v = NULL, *a = NULL, *b = NULL;
 
-                        /* We found a device backed by multiple other devices. We don't really support automatic
-                         * discovery on such setups, with the exception of dm-verity partitions. In this case there are
-                         * two backing devices: the data partition and the hash partition. We are fine with such
-                         * setups, however, only if both partitions are on the same physical device. Hence, let's
-                         * verify this. */
+                        /* We found a device backed by multiple other devices. We don't really support
+                         * automatic discovery on such setups, with the exception of dm-verity partitions. In
+                         * this case there are two backing devices: the data partition and the hash
+                         * partition. We are fine with such setups, however, only if both partitions are on
+                         * the same physical device.  Hence, let's verify this by iterating over every node
+                         * in the 'slaves/' directory and comparing them with the first that gets returned by
+                         * readdir(), to ensure they all point to the same device. */
 
                         u = path_join(p, de->d_name, "../dev");
                         if (!u)
                                 return -ENOMEM;
 
-                        v = path_join(p, found->d_name, "../dev");
+                        v = path_join(p, first_found, "../dev");
                         if (!v)
                                 return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -144,15 +147,17 @@ int block_get_originating(dev_t dt, dev_t *ret) {
                          * different physical devices, and we don't support that. */
                         if (!streq(a, b))
                                 return -ENOTUNIQ;
+                } else {
+                        first_found = strdup(de->d_name);
+                        if (!first_found)
+                                return -ENOMEM;
                 }
-
-                found = de;
         }
 
-        if (!found)
+        if (!first_found)
                 return -ENOENT;
 
-        q = strjoina(p, "/", found->d_name, "/dev");
+        q = strjoina(p, "/", first_found, "/dev");
 
         r = read_one_line_file(q, &t);
         if (r < 0)