testsuite: resolve the LD_PRELOAD hook lazily, not in its constructor

A preloaded open() interposes for the whole process the moment the loader
maps the library -- including calls made from OTHER shared objects'
constructors.  The order constructors run between unrelated objects is
unspecified, so resolving real_open in our own constructor is a race we
do not always win.

On AlmaLinux 8 we lose it: OPENSSL_init_library() calls open() from its
constructor before ours runs, real_open is still NULL, and the process
dies in the loader:

    #0  0x0000000000000000
    #1  open () from hook.so
    #2  OPENSSL_init_library () from libcrypto.so.1.1
    #3  call_init ... dl-init.c

Every rsync run under the hook segfaulted, the load marker never
appeared, and the test reported "hook was not loaded" -- so a crash on a
supported platform surfaced only as a skip.  Not a glibc-version thing:
ubuntu-1804 (glibc 2.27, older than AlmaLinux 8's 2.28) wins the race and
passes.

Resolve on demand at the top of each wrapper instead, with a raw
openat(2) fallback for the case where even dlsym() is unusable that
early.  The test now runs, and passes, on AlmaLinux 8.
This commit is contained in:
Andrew Tridgell committed 2026-07-26 19:40:12 +10:00
1 parent 72f2ceaa88
commit bbcef46455
1 file changed
+43 -10
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ if _proto is not None and _proto < 30:
hook_code = r'''
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <errno.h>
@@ -56,11 +57,37 @@ static int (*real_openat)(int, const char *, int, ...);
static int (*real_fstatat)(int, const char *, struct stat *, int);
static int (*real_fxstatat)(int, int, const char *, struct stat *, int);
/* Resolve on demand rather than trusting our constructor to have run. A
* preloaded open() interposes for the whole process the moment the loader maps
* us, including calls made from OTHER libraries' constructors -- and the order
* constructors run between unrelated shared objects is unspecified. On
* AlmaLinux 8, OPENSSL_init_library() calls open() from its constructor before
* ours runs, so a plain "resolved in the constructor" pointer is still NULL and
* the process dies with SIGSEGV inside the loader. */
static void hook_resolve(void)
{
if (!real_open) real_open = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "open");
if (!real_openat) real_openat = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "openat");
if (!real_fstatat) real_fstatat = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "fstatat");
if (!real_fxstatat) real_fxstatat = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "__fxstatat");
}
/* Last-resort passthrough if even dlsym() is unusable this early. openat(2)
* rather than open(2): open is not a syscall on every architecture. */
static int raw_openat(int dfd, const char *path, int flags, mode_t mode)
{
return (int)syscall(SYS_openat, dfd, path, flags, mode);
}
static void mark(const char *path)
{
int fd;
if (path && real_open
&& (fd = real_open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600)) >= 0)
hook_resolve();
if (!path)
return;
fd = real_open ? real_open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600)
: raw_openat(AT_FDCWD, path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600);
if (fd >= 0)
close(fd);
}
@@ -116,11 +143,14 @@ static int is_victim_write(const char *path, int flags)
int openat(int dfd, const char *path, int flags, ...)
{
const char *partial = getenv("RSYNC_PARTIAL_RETRY_DIR");
const char *secret = getenv("RSYNC_PARTIAL_RETRY_SECRET");
const char *partial, *secret;
mode_t mode = 0;
int fd, saved_errno;
hook_resolve();
partial = getenv("RSYNC_PARTIAL_RETRY_DIR");
secret = getenv("RSYNC_PARTIAL_RETRY_SECRET");
if (flags & O_CREAT) {
va_list ap;
va_start(ap, flags);
@@ -134,7 +164,8 @@ int openat(int dfd, const char *path, int flags, ...)
return -1;
}
fd = real_openat(dfd, path, flags, mode);
fd = real_openat ? real_openat(dfd, path, flags, mode)
: raw_openat(dfd, path, flags, mode);
saved_errno = errno;
/* An unconfined retry resolves the swapped parent and lands in the secret
@@ -154,6 +185,8 @@ int open(const char *path, int flags, ...)
mode_t mode = 0;
int fd, saved_errno;
hook_resolve();
if (flags & O_CREAT) {
va_list ap;
va_start(ap, flags);
@@ -167,7 +200,8 @@ int open(const char *path, int flags, ...)
return -1;
}
fd = real_open(path, flags, mode);
fd = real_open ? real_open(path, flags, mode)
: raw_openat(AT_FDCWD, path, flags, mode);
saved_errno = errno;
/* The pre-fix recovery uses plain open() on the full pathname, which walks
@@ -197,6 +231,7 @@ int fstatat(int dfd, const char *path, struct stat *st, int flags)
{
int rc, saved_errno;
hook_resolve();
if (!real_fstatat) {
errno = ENOSYS;
return -1;
@@ -213,6 +248,7 @@ int __fxstatat(int ver, int dfd, const char *path, struct stat *st, int flags)
{
int rc, saved_errno;
hook_resolve();
if (!real_fxstatat) {
errno = ENOSYS;
return -1;
@@ -226,10 +262,7 @@ int __fxstatat(int ver, int dfd, const char *path, struct stat *st, int flags)
__attribute__((constructor)) static void hook_loaded(void)
{
real_open = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "open");
real_openat = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "openat");
real_fstatat = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "fstatat");
real_fxstatat = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "__fxstatat");
hook_resolve();
mark(getenv("RSYNC_PARTIAL_RETRY_LOAD_MARKER"));
}