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[2/2] Enable the close-on-exec flag for the debug log file descriptor

Message ID 20181011202010.29226-2-karol@babioch.de
State Superseded
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Series [1/2] Create debug log file with more sane file permissions | expand

Commit Message

Karol Babioch Oct. 11, 2018, 8:20 p.m. UTC 
On Linux platforms this flag will make sure that file descriptor is
leaked into potential child processes. While this is not a problem right
now, it is considered to be good practice these days when dealing with file
descriptors on the Linux platform.

Signed-off-by: Karol Babioch <karol@babioch.de>
---
 src/utils/wpa_debug.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/src/utils/wpa_debug.c b/src/utils/wpa_debug.c
index b412f88e3..9d159632d 100644
--- a/src/utils/wpa_debug.c
+++ b/src/utils/wpa_debug.c
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@  static int wpa_to_android_level(int level)
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#ifdef __linux__
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#endif /* __linux__ */
 
 static int out_fd = -1;
 static FILE *out_file = NULL;
@@ -567,6 +570,14 @@  int wpa_debug_open_file(const char *path)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+#ifdef __linux__
+	if (fcntl(out_fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) == -1) {
+		wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, "wpa_debug_open_file: Failed to set O_CLOEXEC "
+			   "on output file descriptor, using standard output");
+		close(out_fd);
+		return -1;
+	}
+#endif /* __linux__ */
 #ifndef _WIN32
 	setvbuf(out_file, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);
 #endif /* _WIN32 */