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authorMatthew Ife <matthew.ife@airattack-central.com>2011-07-01 14:27:24 -0400
committerSimo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com>2011-07-01 14:51:02 -0400
commita689ac5f684af13aaff1185e17ccdfb651b30e2f (patch)
tree90863b1adab77a7f7da7fc58faba69ea9aff8024 /src/tools/nscd.c
parentf0f439c77363627115ca6b452d80b2f1822e4a36 (diff)
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Replace system() function with fork and execl call.
This is much more selinux friendly as it allows policy makers to call nscd_domtrans to transition to nscd_t instead of giving more access to the system via the corcmd_exec_bin macro. Modified-by: Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <ssorce@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/tools/nscd.c')
-rw-r--r--src/tools/nscd.c52
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/src/tools/nscd.c b/src/tools/nscd.c
index 992f8dadd..f17fd6acc 100644
--- a/src/tools/nscd.c
+++ b/src/tools/nscd.c
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@
#if defined(NSCD_PATH) && defined(HAVE_NSCD)
int flush_nscd_cache(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, enum nscd_db flush_db)
{
- char *cmd = NULL;
const char *service;
- int ret;
+ pid_t nscd_pid;
+ int ret, status;
switch(flush_db) {
case NSCD_DB_PASSWD:
@@ -54,30 +54,38 @@ int flush_nscd_cache(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, enum nscd_db flush_db)
goto done;
}
- cmd = talloc_asprintf(mem_ctx, "%s %s %s", NSCD_PATH,
- NSCD_RELOAD_ARG,
- service);
- if (!cmd) {
- ret = ENOMEM;
- goto done;
- }
-
- ret = system(cmd);
- if (ret) {
- if (ret == -1) {
- DEBUG(1, ("system(3) failed\n"));
- ret = EFAULT;
- goto done;
+ nscd_pid = fork();
+ switch (nscd_pid) {
+ case 0:
+ execl(NSCD_PATH, "nscd", NSCD_RELOAD_ARG, service, NULL);
+ /* if this returns it is an error */
+ DEBUG(1, ("execl(3) failed: %d(%s)\n", errno, strerror(errno)));
+ exit(errno);
+ case -1:
+ DEBUG(1, ("fork failed\n"));
+ ret = EFAULT;
+ break;
+ default:
+ do {
+ errno = 0;
+ ret = waitpid(nscd_pid, &status, 0);
+ } while (ret == -1 && errno == EINTR);
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ if (WIFEXITED(status)) {
+ ret = WEXITSTATUS(status);
+ if (ret > 0) {
+ /* The flush fails if nscd is not running, so do not care
+ * about the return code */
+ DEBUG(8, ("Error flushing cache, is nscd running?\n"));
+ }
+ }
+ } else {
+ DEBUG(5, ("Failed to wait for children %d\n", nscd_pid));
+ ret = EIO;
}
- /* The flush fails if nscd is not running, so do not care
- * about the return code */
- DEBUG(8, ("Error flushing cache, perhaps nscd is not running\n"));
}
-
- ret = EOK;
done:
- talloc_free(cmd);
return ret;
}