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Issue 183953004: POSIX: CHECK() that file_util::ScopedFD fulfills promise. (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src
Patch Set: Fix IOS compile failure. Created 6 years, 10 months ago
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Index: base/file_util.h
diff --git a/base/file_util.h b/base/file_util.h
index 4af6c97ad6257832f258f515de729f7f5efffc30..bd339980494e924d524f7a65619c70d3681ecbe9 100644
--- a/base/file_util.h
+++ b/base/file_util.h
@@ -416,8 +416,14 @@ typedef scoped_ptr<FILE, ScopedFILEClose> ScopedFILE;
struct ScopedFDClose {
inline void operator()(int* x) const {
if (x && *x >= 0) {
- if (IGNORE_EINTR(close(*x)) < 0)
- DPLOG(ERROR) << "close";
+ // It's important to crash here.
+ // There are security implications to not closing a file descriptor
+ // properly. As file descriptors are "capabilities", keeping them open
+ // would make the current process keep access to a resource. Much of
+ // Chrome relies on being able to "drop" such access.
+ // It's especially problematic on Linux with the setuid sandbox, where
+ // a single open directory would bypass the entire security model.
+ PCHECK(0 == IGNORE_EINTR(close(*x)));
}
}
};
@@ -427,6 +433,8 @@ struct ScopedFDClose {
// need to store the FD separately and keep its memory alive). This should
// probably be called |ScopedFDCloser| or something like that.
typedef scoped_ptr<int, ScopedFDClose> ScopedFD;
+// Let new users use ScopedFDCloser already, while ScopedFD is replaced.
+typedef ScopedFD ScopedFDCloser;
#endif // OS_POSIX
#if defined(OS_LINUX)
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