// Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. // This file implements BSD-style setproctitle() for Linux. // It is written such that it can easily be compiled outside Chromium. // // The Linux kernel sets up two locations in memory to pass arguments and // environment variables to processes. First, there are two char* arrays stored // one after another: argv and environ. A pointer to argv is passed to main(), // while glibc sets the global variable |environ| to point at the latter. Both // of these arrays are terminated by a null pointer; the environment array is // also followed by some empty space to allow additional variables to be added. // // These arrays contain pointers to a second location in memory, where the // strings themselves are stored one after another: first all the arguments, // then the environment variables. // // When the kernel reads the command line arguments for a process, it looks at // the range of memory that it initially used for the argument list. If the // terminating '\0' character is still where it expects, nothing further is // done. If it has been overwritten, the kernel will scan up to the size of // a page looking for another. // // Thus to change the process title, we must move any environment variables out // of the way to make room for a potentially longer title, and then overwrite // the memory pointed to by argv[0] with a single replacement string, making // sure its size does not exceed the available space. // // See the following kernel commit for the details of the contract between // kernel and setproctitle: // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2954152298c37804dab49d630aa959625b50cf64 // // It is perhaps worth noting that patches to add a system call to Linux for // this, like in BSD, have never made it in: this is the "official" way to do // this on Linux. Presumably it is not in glibc due to some disagreement over // this position within the glibc project, leaving applications caught in the // middle. (Also, only a very few applications need or want this anyway.) #include "content/common/set_process_title_linux.h" #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "base/files/file_util.h" #include "base/no_destructor.h" extern char** environ; // g_orig_argv0 is the original process name found in argv[0]. // It is set to a copy of argv[0] in setproctitle_init. It is nullptr if // setproctitle_init was unsuccessful or not called. static const char* g_orig_argv0 = nullptr; // Following pointers hold the initial argv/envp memory range. // They are initialized in setproctitle_init and are used to overwrite the // argv/envp memory range with a new process title to be read by the kernel. // They are nullptr if setproctitle_init was unsuccessful or not called. // Note that g_envp_start is not necessary because it is the same as g_argv_end. static char* g_argv_start = nullptr; static char* g_argv_end = nullptr; static char* g_envp_end = nullptr; void setproctitle(const char* fmt, ...) { va_list ap; // Sanity check before we try and set the process title. // The BSD version allows a null fmt to restore the original title. if (!g_orig_argv0 || !fmt) return; // The title can be up to the end of envp. const size_t avail_size = g_envp_end - g_argv_start - 1; // Linux 4.18--5.2 have a bug where we can never set a process title // shorter than the initial argv. Check if the bug exists in the current // kernel on the first call of setproctitle. static const bool buggy_kernel = [avail_size]() { // Attempt to set an empty title. This will set cmdline to: // "" (on Linux --4.17) // "\0\0\0...\0\0\0.\0" (on Linux 4.18--5.2) // "\0" (on Linux 5.3--) memset(g_argv_start, 0, avail_size + 1); g_argv_end[-1] = '.'; std::string cmdline; if (!base::ReadFileToString(base::FilePath("/proc/self/cmdline"), &cmdline)) { return false; } return cmdline.size() >= 2; }(); memset(g_argv_start, 0, avail_size + 1); size_t size; va_start(ap, fmt); if (fmt[0] == '-') { size = vsnprintf(g_argv_start, avail_size, &fmt[1], ap); } else { size = snprintf(g_argv_start, avail_size, "%s ", g_orig_argv0); if (size < avail_size) size += vsnprintf(&g_argv_start[size], avail_size - size, fmt, ap); } va_end(ap); // Kernel looks for a null terminator instead of the initial argv space // when the end of the space is not terminated with a null. // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d26d0cd97c88eb1a5704b42e41ab443406807810 // // If the length of the new title is shorter than the original argv space, // set the last byte of the space to an arbitrary non-null character to tell // the kernel that setproctitle was called. // // On buggy kernels we can never make the process title shorter than the // initial argv. In that case, just leave the remaining bytes filled with // null characters. const size_t argv_size = g_argv_end - g_argv_start - 1; if (!buggy_kernel && size < argv_size) g_argv_end[-1] = '.'; } // A version of this built into glibc would not need this function, since // it could stash the argv pointer in __libc_start_main(). But we need it. void setproctitle_init(const char** main_argv) { static bool init_called = false; if (init_called) return; init_called = true; if (!main_argv) return; // Verify that the memory layout matches expectation. char** argv = const_cast(main_argv); char* argv_start = argv[0]; char* p = argv_start; for (size_t i = 0; argv[i]; ++i) { if (p != argv[i]) return; p += strlen(p) + 1; } char* argv_end = p; size_t environ_size = 0; for (size_t i = 0; environ[i]; ++i, ++environ_size) { if (p != environ[i]) return; p += strlen(p) + 1; } char* envp_end = p; // Move the environment out of the way. Note that we are moving the values, // not the environment array itself. Also note that we preallocate the entire // vector, because a string's underlying data pointer is not stable under // move operations, which could otherwise occur if building up the vector // incrementally. static base::NoDestructor> environ_copy( environ_size); for (size_t i = 0; environ[i]; ++i) { (*environ_copy)[i] = environ[i]; environ[i] = &(*environ_copy)[i][0]; } if (!argv[0]) return; static base::NoDestructor argv0_storage(argv[0]); g_orig_argv0 = argv0_storage->data(); g_argv_start = argv_start; g_argv_end = argv_end; g_envp_end = envp_end; }