logsave: fix fd leak which could cause logsave to hang
The logsave program is leaking a file descriptor when it forks and
execs the program which forks a process which hangs around. In the
case of /etc/init.d/checkroot, this would be fsck. This file
descriptor never gets closed, so it's still present when fsck runs
e2fsck, and then if e2fsck has its own logging enabled using (in
/etc/e2fsck.conf):
[options]
log_dir = /mnt
log_filename = e2fsck-%N.%h.INFO.%D-%T
log_dir_wait = true
then e2fsck will fork off a process waiting for /mnt to get remounted
read/write. This causes logsave to never get an EOF from its pipe, so
it hangs waiting for the read to fail --- which won't happen due to
the file descriptor leak which is still being held open by e2fsck's
forked child process. And so /etc/init.d/checkroot hangs, and the
root file system never gets remounted read/write, and we deadlock.
Fix the problem by closing the pipe fd so the logsave program doesn't
end up leaking it to its descendent processes.
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #682592
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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