fix maxfd being zero

If _SC_OPEN_MAX is available then maxfd was zero initialized and never set to the value from sysconf.
This leads to segfaults with free(): invalid size introduced by commit 7cafb0e84550035fe671662c293122be975065ca.

Signed-off-by: Sven Nierlein <sven@nierlein.de>

4 files changed, 23 insertions, 57 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/popen.c b/plugins/popen.c
index 116d168d..557fb44e 100644
--- a/plugins/popen.c
+++ b/plugins/popen.c
@@ -78,14 +78,9 @@ RETSIGTYPE popen_timeout_alarm_handler (int);
 
 #define	min(a,b)	((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))
 #define	max(a,b)	((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))
-static void err_sys (const char *, ...) __attribute__((noreturn,format(printf, 1, 2)));
-char *rtrim (char *, const char *);
 
 char *pname = NULL;							/* caller can set this from argv[0] */
 
-/*int *childerr = NULL;*//* ptr to array allocated at run-time */
-/*extern pid_t *childpid = NULL; *//* ptr to array allocated at run-time */
-
 #ifdef REDHAT_SPOPEN_ERROR
 static volatile int childtermd = 0;
 #endif
@@ -184,6 +179,9 @@ spopen (const char *cmdstring)
 	}
 	argv[i] = NULL;
 
+	if(maxfd == 0)
+		maxfd = open_max();
+
 	if (childpid == NULL) {				/* first time through */
 		if ((childpid = calloc ((size_t)maxfd, sizeof (pid_t))) == NULL)
 			return (NULL);
@@ -296,47 +294,3 @@ popen_timeout_alarm_handler (int signo)
 		exit (STATE_CRITICAL);
 	}
 }
-
-
-/* Fatal error related to a system call.
- * Print a message and die. */
-
-#define MAXLINE 2048
-static void
-err_sys (const char *fmt, ...)
-{
-	int errnoflag = 1;
-	int errno_save;
-	char buf[MAXLINE];
-
-	va_list ap;
-
-	va_start (ap, fmt);
-	/* err_doit (1, fmt, ap); */
-	errno_save = errno;						/* value caller might want printed */
-	vsprintf (buf, fmt, ap);
-	if (errnoflag)
-		sprintf (buf + strlen (buf), ": %s", strerror (errno_save));
-	strcat (buf, "\n");
-	fflush (stdout);							/* in case stdout and stderr are the same */
-	fputs (buf, stderr);
-	fflush (NULL);								/* flushes all stdio output streams */
-	va_end (ap);
-	exit (1);
-}
-
-char *
-rtrim (char *str, const char *tok)
-{
-	int i = 0;
-	int j = sizeof (str);
-
-	while (str != NULL && i < j) {
-		if (*(str + i) == *tok) {
-			sprintf (str + i, "%s", "\0");
-			return str;
-		}
-		i++;
-	}
-	return str;
-}
diff --git a/plugins/runcmd.c b/plugins/runcmd.c
index c3828678..a7155d27 100644
--- a/plugins/runcmd.c
+++ b/plugins/runcmd.c
@@ -86,14 +86,8 @@ extern void die (int, const char *, ...)
  * through this api and thus achieve async-safeness throughout the api */
 void np_runcmd_init(void)
 {
-#ifndef maxfd
-	if(!maxfd && (maxfd = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)) < 0) {
-		/* possibly log or emit a warning here, since there's no
-		 * guarantee that our guess at maxfd will be adequate */
-		maxfd = 256;
-	}
-#endif
-
+	if(maxfd == 0)
+		maxfd = open_max();
 	if(!np_pids) np_pids = calloc(maxfd, sizeof(pid_t));
 }
 
diff --git a/plugins/utils.c b/plugins/utils.c
index ee620133..348ec022 100644
--- a/plugins/utils.c
+++ b/plugins/utils.c
@@ -678,3 +678,19 @@ char *sperfdata_int (const char *label,
 
 	return data;
 }
+
+int
+open_max (void)
+{
+	errno = 0;
+	if (maxfd > 0)
+		return(maxfd);
+
+	if ((maxfd = sysconf (_SC_OPEN_MAX)) < 0) {
+		if (errno == 0)
+			maxfd = DEFAULT_MAXFD;   /* it's indeterminate */
+	else
+		die (STATE_UNKNOWN, _("sysconf error for _SC_OPEN_MAX\n"));
+	}
+	return(maxfd);
+}
diff --git a/plugins/utils.h b/plugins/utils.h
index 6aa316fe..33a20547 100644
--- a/plugins/utils.h
+++ b/plugins/utils.h
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ char *sperfdata (const char *, double, const char *, char *, char *,
 char *sperfdata_int (const char *, int, const char *, char *, char *,
                      int, int, int, int);
 
+int open_max (void);
+
 /* The idea here is that, although not every plugin will use all of these, 
    most will or should.  Therefore, for consistency, these very common 
    options should have only these meanings throughout the overall suite */