On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 06:07:43PM +0800, Hui Yiqun wrote: > + if (runtime_dir && *runtime_dir) > + git_runtime_dir = mkpathdup("%s/git/", runtime_dir); > + else > + git_runtime_dir = mkpathdup("/tmp/git-%d", uid); Here we allocate the string, but later we may return NULL on error, leaking the allocated memory. > + if (!lstat(git_runtime_dir, &st)) { > + /* > + * As described in XDG base dir spec[1], the subdirectory > + * under $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or its fallback MUST be owned by > + * the user, and its unix access mode MUST be 0700. > + * > + * Calling chmod or chown silently may cause security > + * problem if somebody chdir to it, sleep, and then, try > + * to open our protected runtime cache or socket. > + * So we just put warning and left it to user to solve. > + * > + * [1]https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/ > + * basedir-spec-latest.html > + */ OK. I think these checks should be sufficient to deal with the /tmp race I mentioned elsewhere in the thread (assuming that an attacker cannot flip the uid back and forth in the same way, but that should be true on Unix systems). > + if ((st.st_mode & 0777) != S_IRWXU) { > + fprintf(stderr, > + "permission of runtime directory '%s' " > + "MUST be 0700 instead of 0%o\n", > + git_runtime_dir, (st.st_mode & 0777)); > + return NULL; > + } else if (st.st_uid != uid) { > + fprintf(stderr, > + "owner of runtime directory '%s' " > + "MUST be %d instead of %d\n", > + git_runtime_dir, uid, st.st_uid); > + return NULL; > + } Should these be using warning(), rather than a raw fprintf? > + } else { > + if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(git_runtime_dir) < 0) { > + fprintf(stderr, > + "unable to create directories for '%s'\n", > + git_runtime_dir); > + return NULL; > + } > + if (mkdir(git_runtime_dir, 0700) < 0) { > + fprintf(stderr, > + "unable to mkdir '%s'\n", git_runtime_dir); > + return NULL; > + } > + } And this retains the un-racy mkdir(). Good. > + free(git_runtime_dir); > + return mkpathdup("%s/%s", git_runtime_dir, filename); This mkpathdup accesses the string we just freed? It might be easier to just use a strbuf here, and then you can append to it at the end. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html