Aurelien Jarno writes ("Re: Bug#963508: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: LD_PRELOAD breaks with plain filename"): > On 2020-06-23 11:46, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Should apparmor make a difference between absolute paths and leafnames > > in LD_PRELOAD ? Because I can reproduce that with eatmydata: > > $ eatmydata env -u LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > LD_PRELOAD='/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libeatmydata.so' man ls >/dev/null > > $ > > > > strace in the run with the error message[1] shows it does successfully > > open the intended .so file. But then it goes on to try lots of other > > places instead and eventually prints that error message. It seems > > that it opened the file but rejected it. > > It's because running man involves running many binaries, and not all of > them are run under apparmor.
I don't think that can be the whole explanation. The strace rune I used gives a different output file for each process. The process which prints the error message is the same one which previously successfully opens the file - see my strace output, which is just from man's run of preconv. > > I notice that during startup it does this > > access("/etc/suid-debug", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > > but none of my man-db binaries are setuid (I have double-checked). > > This is exactly my point. This happens because the binary is considered > like a suid binary, ie the kernel sets AT_SECURE for binaries running > with apparmor. Thanks, yes, that does seem to be the case. I searched my strace outputs again and the processes that print the error message are precisely the same processes that call access on /etc/suid-debug. And I did find /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.man which does talk about preconv (for example). However ... > From the glibc point of view, this disables, among other > things, support for preloading. The glibc doesn't actually know the > reason why AT_SECURE is enabled, historically it meant suid binaries > (hence the suid-debug name), but nowadays, it's also used by selinux and > apparmor. I think more must be going on. If it were merely that support for preloading was disabled, why does it even try to search for the library ? Why does providing an absolute path make it quiet ? (I haven't been able to find an easy way to see whether the LD_PRELOAD is being honoured.) Why does my ambient LD_PRELOAD of libgtk3-nocsd.so.0 (which applies to all programs in my session) not produce the same error message ? (As an aside, I'm not sure why it makes sense for apparmor to inhibit preloading. I thought apparmor was intended to restrict the applications you apply it to, not defend them against their callers.) Thanks for your attention. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.