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start_kdeinit reads its environment over a pipe from start_kdeinit_wrapper. For
security, each environment entry must be smaller than 4kb by default. Qt-based
applications in Nixpkgs may have larger environments, and the recent upgrade to
Plasma 5.17 pushed start_kdeinit_wrapper over the limit. The limit is now
extended to 16kb.

This problem was not detected during testing because the failure is silent:
start_kdeinit will continue with an empty environment. In other circumstances,
this strategy might work, but it does not work on NixOS. This failure is now
treated as a fatal error.

Fixes: #79707
(cherry picked from commit c758609)
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ttuegel committed Feb 18, 2020
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@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
Index: kinit-5.32.0/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
===================================================================
--- kinit-5.32.0.orig/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
+++ kinit-5.32.0/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
@@ -623,19 +623,15 @@ static pid_t launch(int argc, const char
From 715c5f461b4992dac066601202a673bc551a5e33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Tuegel <ttuegel@mailbox.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:23:31 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] kinit-libpath

---
src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp | 22 +++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp b/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
index 8fff17a..0801b75 100644
--- a/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
+++ b/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
@@ -622,19 +622,15 @@ static pid_t launch(int argc, const char *_name, const char *args,

if (!libpath.isEmpty()) {
if (libpath_relative) {
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}
} else {
l.load();
--
2.23.1

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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
From 129cd0ae1e983adc10dbe84e87bcc6f31cb13db8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Tuegel <ttuegel@mailbox.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:23:44 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] start_kdeinit-path

---
src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit_wrapper.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit_wrapper.c b/src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit_wrapper.c
index 891f50c..ef664ad 100644
--- a/src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit_wrapper.c
+++ b/src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit_wrapper.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

-#define EXECUTE CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBEXECDIR_KF5 "/start_kdeinit"
+#define EXECUTE "/run/wrappers/bin/start_kdeinit"

#if KDEINIT_OOM_PROTECT

--
2.23.1

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@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
Index: kinit-5.32.0/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
===================================================================
--- kinit-5.32.0.orig/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
+++ kinit-5.32.0/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
From 4f5d0de7e35744cdbfa9e280ee7e15a54cf21abb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Tuegel <ttuegel@mailbox.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:24:07 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] kdeinit-extra-libs

---
src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp | 22 ++++------------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp b/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
index 0801b75..622dd5f 100644
--- a/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
+++ b/src/kdeinit/kinit.cpp
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ static const char *extra_libs[] = {
"libKF5Parts.5.dylib",
"libKF5Plasma.5.dylib"
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#endif
};
#endif
@@ -1533,20 +1531,6 @@ static int initXconnection()
@@ -1524,20 +1524,6 @@ static int initXconnection()
}
#endif

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extern "C" {

static void secondary_child_handler(int)
@@ -1692,7 +1676,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
@@ -1679,7 +1665,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
#if defined(Q_OS_UNIX) && !defined(Q_OS_OSX)
if (!d.suicide && qEnvironmentVariableIsEmpty("KDE_IS_PRELINKED")) {
const int extrasCount = sizeof(extra_libs) / sizeof(extra_libs[0]);
for (int i = 0; i < extrasCount; i++) {
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if (!extra.isEmpty()) {
QLibrary l(extra);
l.setLoadHints(QLibrary::ExportExternalSymbolsHint);
--
2.23.1

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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
From 41e94983dcfbc1667f1b18c5b566aa5c5975edcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Tuegel <ttuegel@mailbox.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 04:45:03 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] start_kdeinit-environ-hard-limit

---
src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit.c b/src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit.c
index f2db3e9..4ff2602 100644
--- a/src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit.c
+++ b/src/start_kdeinit/start_kdeinit.c
@@ -148,7 +148,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
++i) {
unsigned len;
if (read(0, &len, sizeof(unsigned)) == sizeof(unsigned)
- && len && len < (1 << 12)) {
+ && len) {
+ if (len >= (1 << 14)) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "%s: exceeded environment length limit", argv[0]);
+ return 1;
+ }
env[ i ] = malloc(len + 1);
if ((unsigned) read(0, env[ i ], len) == len) {
env[ i ][ len ] = '\0';
--
2.23.1

7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion pkgs/development/libraries/kde-frameworks/kinit/default.nix
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Expand Up @@ -14,7 +14,12 @@ mkDerivation {
buildInputs = [
kconfig kcrash ki18n kio kservice kwindowsystem
];
patches = copyPathsToStore (lib.readPathsFromFile ./. ./series);
patches = [
./0001-kinit-libpath.patch
./0002-start_kdeinit-path.patch
./0003-kdeinit-extra-libs.patch
./0004-start_kdeinit-environ-hard-limit.patch
];
CXXFLAGS = [
''-DNIXPKGS_KF5_KIOCORE=\"${getLib kio}/lib/libKF5KIOCore.so.5\"''
''-DNIXPKGS_KF5_PARTS=\"${getLib kparts}/lib/libKF5Parts.so.5\"''
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