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fix(libstore/lock): support users that belong to more than 10 groups

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The manpage for `getgrouplist` says:

> If the number of groups of which user is a member is less than or
> equal to *ngroups, then the value *ngroups is returned.
>
> If the user is a member of more than *ngroups groups, then
> getgrouplist() returns -1.  In this case, the value returned in
> *ngroups can be used to resize the buffer passed to a further
> call getgrouplist().

In our original code, however, we allocated a list of size `10` and, if
`getgrouplist` returned `-1` threw an exception. In practice, this
caused the code to fail for any user belonging to more than 10 groups.

While unusual for single-user systems, large companies commonly have a
huge number of POSIX groups users belong to, causing this issue to crop
up and make multi-user Nix unusable in such settings.

The fix is relatively simple, when `getgrouplist` fails, it stores the
real number of GIDs in `ngroups`, so we must resize our list and retry.
Only then, if it errors once more, we can raise an exception.

This should be backported to, at least, 2.9.x.
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Bernardo Meurer 2022-06-08 13:45:39 -04:00
parent 12e86c0735
commit 931930feb1
1 changed files with 19 additions and 6 deletions
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@ -67,13 +67,26 @@ bool UserLock::findFreeUser() {
#if __linux__
/* Get the list of supplementary groups of this build user. This
is usually either empty or contains a group such as "kvm". */
supplementaryGIDs.resize(10);
int ngroups = supplementaryGIDs.size();
int err = getgrouplist(pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid,
supplementaryGIDs.data(), &ngroups);
if (err == -1)
throw Error("failed to get list of supplementary groups for '%1%'", pw->pw_name);
int ngroups = 32; // arbitrary initial guess
supplementaryGIDs.resize(ngroups);
int err = getgrouplist(pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid, supplementaryGIDs.data(),
&ngroups);
// Our initial size of 32 wasn't sufficient, the correct size has
// been stored in ngroups, so we try again.
if (err == -1) {
supplementaryGIDs.resize(ngroups);
err = getgrouplist(pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid, supplementaryGIDs.data(),
&ngroups);
}
// If it failed once more, then something must be broken.
if (err == -1)
throw Error("failed to get list of supplementary groups for '%1%'",
pw->pw_name);
// Finally, trim back the GID list to its real size
supplementaryGIDs.resize(ngroups);
#endif