On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:24:35 -0600 David Vernet <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > execute_program(), in the trace-cmd record subcommand, searches for a > command in PATH to create an absolute path to pass to execve. The > implementation uses strtok_r, which mutates the underlying string in > place by replacing ':' tokens with NULL bytes. This can and does cause > the PATH that's passed to execve to only contain the first entry to > PATH, which can cause issues such as the following: > > [root@maniforge linus]# trace-cmd record -e sched -v -e sched_stat_runtime make clean > /bin/sh: line 1: uname: command not found > /bin/sh: line 1: sed: command not found > /bin/sh: line 1: head: command not found > /bin/sh: line 1: grep: command not found > /bin/sh: line 1: mkdir: command not found > ... > /bin/sh: line 1: mkdir: command not found > /bin/sh: line 1: mkdir: command not found > Makefile:681: arch//Makefile: No such file or directory > make: *** No rule to make target 'arch//Makefile'. Stop. > > We should be resetting the PATH variable to the string stored in the > saveptr argument to strtok_r. Bah, I had this fixed locally, but never made pushed it up. > > Fixes: edf9424029cc ("trace-cmd: Open code execvp routine to avoid multiple execve syscalls") > Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > tracecmd/trace-record.c | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/tracecmd/trace-record.c b/tracecmd/trace-record.c > index bced80406816..63af11ecaa80 100644 > --- a/tracecmd/trace-record.c > +++ b/tracecmd/trace-record.c > @@ -1708,6 +1708,14 @@ static void execute_program(int argc, char **argv) > break; > > } > + > + /* > + * reset PATH to saveptr, as strtok_r overwrites the string > + * returned by getenv() which backs the PATH environment > + * variable. > + */ > + if (setenv("PATH", saveptr, 1)) > + die("Failed to reset PATH to %s (%s)", saveptr, strerror(errno)); > } else { > strncpy(buf, argv[0], sizeof(buf)); > } The fix I had was this: diff --git a/tracecmd/trace-record.c b/tracecmd/trace-record.c index bced8040..1a461631 100644 --- a/tracecmd/trace-record.c +++ b/tracecmd/trace-record.c @@ -1698,6 +1698,9 @@ static void execute_program(int argc, char **argv) if (!path) die("can't search for '%s' if $PATH is NULL", argv[0]); + /* Do not modify the actual environment variable */ + path = strdup(path); + for (entry = strtok_r(path, ":", &saveptr); entry; entry = strtok_r(NULL, ":", &saveptr)) { @@ -1712,6 +1715,7 @@ static void execute_program(int argc, char **argv) strncpy(buf, argv[0], sizeof(buf)); } + free(path); tracecmd_enable_tracing(); if (execve(buf, argv, environ)) { fprintf(stderr, "\n********************\n"); Does that work for you? Although, I still need to test the result of strdup(). -- Steve