Re: 'hash foo' may fail, and would require something like 'hash /usr/bin/foo'

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/9/22 12:25 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Mär 09 2022, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 
>> Basically, musl libc enabled the faccessat2(2) system call and started
>> using it in faccessat(2). access(2) ends up calling faccessat, which now
>> uses faccessat2 if it's available. Alpine Linux 3.14 incorrectly returned
>> EPERM for unknown system calls instead of ENOSYS when running under the
>> faulty Docker version, which didn't know about faccessat2. EPERM has the
>> obvious meaning when access(2) returns it; the caller can't just assume
>> that EPERM means "system call blocked by security policy." And so bash
>> assumed that access returning EPERM meant that the binary wasn't
>> executable.
> 
> This is a recurring problem with docker, and all comes down to the
> syscall filter returning a bogus errno.  It happens every time a new
> syscall is introduced.

Yes, that's why it required the exact conditions to reproduce.

Ultimately, this comes down to gaps in the release engineering.


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