From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch, passt: Use executable link to form AVX2 binary path
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:07:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ys+IYbvJ3iDxYpAW@yekko> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220713061709.1426358-1-sbrivio@redhat.com>
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 08:17:09AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> ...instead of argv[0], which might or might not contain a valid path
> to the executable itself. Instead of mangling argv[0], use the same
> link to find out if we're already running the AVX2 build where
> supported.
Ah.. yeah, I remember seeing that usage of argv[0] and suspecting it
might be a problem.
> Alternatively, we could use execvpe(), but that might result in
> running a different installed version, in case e.g. the set of
> binaries is present in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, with both
> being in $PATH.
>
> Reported-by: Wenli Quan <wquan(a)redhat.com>
> Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2101310
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio(a)redhat.com>
> ---
> arch.c | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
> passt.c | 9 ++++++---
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch.c b/arch.c
> index ae21d59..71feda3 100644
> --- a/arch.c
> +++ b/arch.c
> @@ -14,26 +14,31 @@
>
> #include <limits.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> +#include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> /**
> - * arch_avx2_exec() - Run AVX2 build if supported, drop suffix from argv[0]
> + * arch_avx2_exec() - Switch to AVX2 build if supported
> * @argv: Arguments from command line
> */
> #ifdef __x86_64__
> -static char avx2_path[PATH_MAX];
> -
> void arch_avx2_exec(char **argv)
> {
> - char *p = strstr(argv[0], ".avx2");
> + char exe[PATH_MAX], new_path[PATH_MAX + sizeof(".avx2")], *p;
> +
> + if (readlink("/proc/self/exe", exe, PATH_MAX) < 0) {
> + perror("readlink /proc/self/exe");
> + exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> + }
> +
> + p = strstr(exe, ".avx2");
> + if (p && strlen(p) == strlen(".avx2"))
> + return;
>
> - if (p) {
> - *p = 0;
> - } else if (__builtin_cpu_supports("avx2")) {
> - snprintf(avx2_path, PATH_MAX, "%s.avx2", argv[0]);
> - argv[0] = avx2_path;
> - execve(avx2_path, argv, environ);
> + if (__builtin_cpu_supports("avx2")) {
> + snprintf(new_path, PATH_MAX + sizeof(".avx2"), "%s.avx2", exe);
> + execve(new_path, argv, environ);
> perror("Can't run AVX2 build, using non-AVX2 version");
> }
> }
> diff --git a/passt.c b/passt.c
> index dd0229a..56fcf5f 100644
> --- a/passt.c
> +++ b/passt.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
> #include <sys/mount.h>
> #include <netinet/ip.h>
> #include <net/ethernet.h>
> +#include <libgen.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <net/if.h>
> @@ -283,11 +284,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> int nfds, i, devnull_fd = -1, pidfile_fd = -1, quit_fd;
> struct epoll_event events[EPOLL_EVENTS];
> + char *log_name, argv0[PATH_MAX], *name;
> struct ctx c = { 0 };
> struct rlimit limit;
> struct timespec now;
> struct sigaction sa;
> - char *log_name;
>
> arch_avx2_exec(argv);
>
> @@ -304,14 +305,16 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> if (argc < 1)
> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>
> - if (strstr(argv[0], "pasta")) {
> + strncpy(argv0, argv[0], PATH_MAX - 1);
> + name = basename(argv0);
> + if (strstr(name, "pasta")) {
> sa.sa_handler = pasta_child_handler;
> sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, NULL);
> signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
>
> c.mode = MODE_PASTA;
> log_name = "pasta";
> - } else if (strstr(argv[0], "passt")) {
> + } else if (strstr(name, "passt")) {
> c.mode = MODE_PASST;
> log_name = "passt";
> } else {
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