[Bug general/21203] New: Poor error handling for archives with non-ELF members

["jistone at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21203

            Bug ID: 21203
           Summary: Poor error handling for archives with non-ELF members
           Product: elfutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: general
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: jistone at redhat dot com
                CC: elfutils-devel at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Elfutils doesn't seem to behave well when it encounters non-ELF objects in an
archive.  As an easy example, a Rust *.rlib contains both ELF *.o and non-ELF
metadata and bytecode.

$ eu-readelf -h /usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-*.rlib
eu-readelf: cannot stat input file: Bad file descriptor


For comparison, binutils prints errors about the unrecognized objects, but
still provides useful output for the rest.

$ readelf -h /usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-*.rlib
[...]
File:
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-570da8f8.rlib(rust.metadata.bin)
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

File:
/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-570da8f8.rlib(std-570da8f8.0.bytecode.deflate)
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start


This particular archive has 13 ELF and those 2 non-ELF members.  With strace, I
can see 13 close(4) calls in a row, followed by the fstat(4,...) that leads to
"cannot stat input file".  Then there's yet another close(4)=EBADF, *after*
that file descriptor was already momentarily re-used for locale purposes.

open("/usr/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-570da8f8.rlib",
O_RDONLY) = 3
dup(3)                                  = 4
fcntl(4, F_GETFL)                       = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=12447250, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 12447250, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0x7fc8577ba000
mmap(NULL, 692224, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x7fc85fcae000
close(4)                                = 0
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
fstat(4, 0x7ffd45ce0630)                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2502, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x7fc85fd6c000
read(4, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2502
read(4, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(4)                                = 0
munmap(0x7fc85fd6c000, 4096)            = 0
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/elfutils.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
write(2, "eu-readelf: ", 12eu-readelf: )            = 12
write(2, "cannot stat input file", 22cannot stat input file)  = 22
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
write(2, ": Bad file descriptor", 21: Bad file descriptor)   = 21
write(2, "\n", 1
)                       = 1
close(4)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
munmap(0x7fc85fcae000, 692224)          = 0
close(3)                                = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?
+++ exited with 1 +++

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