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[v3] malloc: Replace shell/Perl gate in mtrace

Message ID 87zfrfhl86.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com
State New
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Series [v3] malloc: Replace shell/Perl gate in mtrace | expand

Commit Message

Florian Weimer June 20, 2024, 12:06 p.m. UTC
The previous version expanded $0 and $@ twice.

The new version defines a q no-op shell command.  The Perl syntax
error is masked by the eval Perl function.  The q { … } construct
is executed by the shell without errors because the q shell function
was defined, but treated as a non-expanding quoted string by Perl,
effectively hiding its context from the Perl interpreter.  As before
the script is read by require instead of executed directly, to avoid
infinite recursion because the #! line contains /bin/sh.

Introduce the “fatal” function to produce diagnostics that are not
suppressed by “do”.  Use “do” instead of “require” because it has
fewer requirements on the executed script that “require”.

Prefix relative paths with './' because “do” (and “require“ before)
searches for the script in @INC if the path is relative and does not
start with './'.  Use $_ to make the trampoline shorter.

Add an Emacs mode marker to indentify the script as a Perl script.

---
v3: Use conditional assignment instead of s,,,.  Add a mode marker.
 malloc/mtrace.pl | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


base-commit: 71dafdf5f19dd2b0729e4774149944911a405bc6

Comments

Andreas Schwab June 20, 2024, 12:58 p.m. UTC | #1
On Jun 20 2024, Florian Weimer wrote:

> The previous version expanded $0 and $@ twice.
>
> The new version defines a q no-op shell command.  The Perl syntax
> error is masked by the eval Perl function.  The q { … } construct
> is executed by the shell without errors because the q shell function
> was defined, but treated as a non-expanding quoted string by Perl,
> effectively hiding its context from the Perl interpreter.  As before
> the script is read by require instead of executed directly, to avoid
> infinite recursion because the #! line contains /bin/sh.
>
> Introduce the “fatal” function to produce diagnostics that are not
> suppressed by “do”.  Use “do” instead of “require” because it has
> fewer requirements on the executed script that “require”.
                                            than

> Prefix relative paths with './' because “do” (and “require“ before)
> searches for the script in @INC if the path is relative and does not
> start with './'.  Use $_ to make the trampoline shorter.
>
> Add an Emacs mode marker to indentify the script as a Perl script.

Ok.
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diff --git a/malloc/mtrace.pl b/malloc/mtrace.pl
index dc6085820e..0a631a07bc 100644
--- a/malloc/mtrace.pl
+++ b/malloc/mtrace.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ 
 #! /bin/sh
-eval exec "perl -e 'shift; \$progname=shift; shift; require \$progname'" . "$0" . "$@"
-   if 0;
+# -*- perl -*-
+eval "q () {
+  :
+}";
+q {
+    exec perl -e '$_ = shift; $_ = "./$_" unless m,^/,; do $_' "$0" "$@"
+}
+;
 # Copyright (C) 1997-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 # This file is part of the GNU C Library.
 # Based on the mtrace.awk script.
@@ -22,6 +28,7 @@  eval exec "perl -e 'shift; \$progname=shift; shift; require \$progname'" . "$0"
 $VERSION = "@VERSION@";
 $PKGVERSION = "@PKGVERSION@";
 $REPORT_BUGS_TO = '@REPORT_BUGS_TO@';
+$progname = $_;
 
 sub usage {
     print "Usage: mtrace [OPTION]... [Binary] MtraceData\n";
@@ -33,6 +40,11 @@  sub usage {
     exit 0;
 }
 
+sub fatal {
+    print STDERR "$_[0]\n";
+    exit 1;
+}
+
 # We expect two arguments:
 #   #1: the complete path to the binary
 #   #2: the mtrace data filename
@@ -86,7 +98,7 @@  if ($#ARGV == 0) {
 	close (LOCS);
     }
 } else {
-    die "Wrong number of arguments, run $progname --help for help.";
+    fatal "Wrong number of arguments, run $progname --help for help.";
 }
 
 sub addr2line {
@@ -148,7 +160,8 @@  sub location {
 }
 
 $nr=0;
-open(DATA, "<$data") || die "Cannot open mtrace data file";
+open(DATA, "<$data")
+  or fatal "$progname: Cannot open mtrace data file $data: $!";
 while (<DATA>) {
     my @cols = split (' ');
     my $n, $where;