basic/process-util: limit command line lengths to _SC_ARG_MAX
authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:48:23 +0000 (18:48 +0100)
committerMichael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 20:49:44 +0000 (20:49 +0000)
commitbc20666b6f78bef81d347967879a15aae901bfba
tree24d9f129f215879b3d5c776e84e711ed24a82832
parentdfb61def00e2e6330fcaed80e43a4a84d4a46e6a
basic/process-util: limit command line lengths to _SC_ARG_MAX

This affects systemd-journald and systemd-coredump.

Example entry:
$ journalctl -o export -n1 'MESSAGE=Something logged'
__CURSOR=s=976542d120c649f494471be317829ef9;i=34e;b=4871e4c474574ce4a462dfe3f1c37f06;m=c7d0c37dd2;t=57c4ac58f3b98;x=67598e942bd23dc0
__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=1544035467475864
__MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP=858200964562
_BOOT_ID=4871e4c474574ce4a462dfe3f1c37f06
PRIORITY=6
_UID=1000
_GID=1000
_CAP_EFFECTIVE=0
_SELINUX_CONTEXT=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
_AUDIT_SESSION=1
_AUDIT_LOGINUID=1000
_SYSTEMD_OWNER_UID=1000
_SYSTEMD_UNIT=user@1000.service
_SYSTEMD_SLICE=user-1000.slice
_SYSTEMD_USER_SLICE=-.slice
_SYSTEMD_INVOCATION_ID=1c4a469986d448719cb0f9141a10810e
_MACHINE_ID=08a5690a2eed47cf92ac0a5d2e3cf6b0
_HOSTNAME=krowka
_TRANSPORT=syslog
SYSLOG_FACILITY=17
SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=syslog-caller
MESSAGE=Something logged
_COMM=poc
_EXE=/home/zbyszek/src/systemd-work3/poc
_SYSTEMD_CGROUP=/user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/gnome-terminal-server.service
_SYSTEMD_USER_UNIT=gnome-terminal-server.service
SYSLOG_PID=4108
SYSLOG_TIMESTAMP=Dec  5 19:44:27
_PID=4108
_CMDLINE=./poc AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA>
_SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=1544035467475848

$ journalctl -o export -n1 'MESSAGE=Something logged' --output-fields=_CMDLINE|wc
      6    2053 2097410

2MB might be hard for some clients to use meaningfully, but OTOH, it is
important to log the full commandline sometimes. For example, when the program
is crashing, the exact argument list is useful.

(cherry picked from commit 2d5d2e0cc5171c6795d2a485841474345d9e30ab)
(cherry picked from commit bcada1eb2f148e0712716d6095bb3a96e8153ec5)

Gbp-Pq: Name basic-process-util-limit-command-line-lengths-to-_SC_ARG_.patch
src/basic/process-util.c