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Handle errors from execve() in the Unix process backend more gracefully.

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This patch removes a call to tor_assert_unreached() after execve()
failed. This assertion leads to the child process emitting a stack trace
on its standard output, which makes the error harder for the user to
demystify, since they think it is an internal error in Tor instead of
"just" being a "no such file or directory" error.

The process will now instead output "Error from child process: X" where
X is the stringified version of the errno value.

See: https://bugs.torproject.org/31810
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Alexander Færøy 2019-10-17 16:39:05 +02:00
parent e483257e1b
commit 9915b8f0bc
2 changed files with 5 additions and 8 deletions
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o Minor bugfixes (process management):
- Remove assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion would trigger
when a new process is spawned where the executable is not found leading to
a stack trace from the child process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.

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@ -253,22 +253,15 @@ process_unix_exec(process_t *process)
process_environment_t *env = process_get_environment(process);
/* Call the requested program. */
retval = execve(argv[0], argv, env->unixoid_environment_block);
execve(argv[0], argv, env->unixoid_environment_block);
/* If we made it here it is because execve failed :-( */
if (-1 == retval)
fprintf(stderr, "Call to execve() failed: %s", strerror(errno));
tor_free(argv);
process_environment_free(env);
tor_assert_unreached();
error:
/* LCOV_EXCL_START */
fprintf(stderr, "Error from child process: %s", strerror(errno));
_exit(1);
/* LCOV_EXCL_STOP */
}
/* We are in the parent process. */