最近写 Perl 程序时遇到一个很奇怪的问题:
- Insecure dependency in unlink while running with -T switch at ../tmpfile.pl line 44.
经过检查,发现这是 Perl 语言一个特性,在运行时使用 -w 或 -T 都意味着 "万无一失" 标志。
-T 标志意味着任何来自外部世界的值(例如从文件读取)都被认为是潜在的威胁,并且不允许在与系统相关的操作中使用这些值,比如写文件、执行系统命令等等。
-w 作用与 use warning 相同,会抛出一些有用的警告信息,如 using uninitialized variable。
为了更清晰的表述该问题,我抽象出一个简单的示例程序:
- #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
-
- use strict;
- use warnings;
-
- use Digest::MD5;
-
- my $DIR_PATH="/var/tmp";
- my $PREFIX = "somedemotmpfile";
-
- sub make_file {
- my ($filename) = @_;
-
- open my $fh, '>', $filename;
- print {$fh} "1" . "\n";
- print {$fh} "2" . "\n";
- print {$fh} "3" . "\n";
- close $fh;
- }
-
- sub make_tmpfile {
- foreach (1..5){
- my $tmpfilename = "$DIR_PATH/$PREFIX-" . Digest::MD5::md5_hex($_ . time() . $$);
- make_file($tmpfilename);
- }
- }
-
-
- sub clean_tmpfile {
- opendir (my $dh, $DIR_PATH) || die "Can not open $DIR_PATH/n";
- my @dots=grep { !/^\.+$/ } readdir($dh);
- closedir($dh);
-
- foreach my $file (@dots)
- {
- my $afile = "$DIR_PATH/$file";
- my $now = time();
- if (-e $afile && $afile =~ m/(^.*$PREFIX.*$)/) {
- #$afile = $1;
- my $mtime = (stat ($afile))[9];
- my $margin = $now - $mtime;
- print("$afile - Last change: $mtime - now: $now - margin(s): $margin\n");
- eval {
- unlink $afile;
- };
- warn $@ if $@;
- }
- }
- }
-
- sub main {
- make_tmpfile();
- clean_tmpfile();
- }
-
- main();
执行该程序,得到如下输出:
- # perl -T ../tmpfile.pl
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-e48d74ec998a1462661eb11b7576d7e5 - Last change: 1658904122 - now: 1658904122 - margin(s): 0
- Insecure dependency in unlink while running with -T switch at ../tmpfile.pl line 44.
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-a071ba8e02d34ef2878d7a698a22b93c - Last change: 1658904122 - now: 1658904122 - margin(s): 0
- Insecure dependency in unlink while running with -T switch at ../tmpfile.pl line 44.
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-1a63c4b7965dc50c519e7aa68c8b081a - Last change: 1658904122 - now: 1658904122 - margin(s): 0
- Insecure dependency in unlink while running with -T switch at ../tmpfile.pl line 44.
可以看到,当我从文件系统读取一些文件,并尝试直接删除这些问题时,这步操作被阻止,并报出警告 Insecure dependency in unlink while running with -T switch。
为了消除“污染”,最简单的方法是使用严格正则匹配后的结果再做操作,代码修改如下:
- diff --git a/study_perl/tmpfile.pl b/study_perl/tmpfile.pl
- index 6520a25..51ef684 100644
- --- a/study_perl/tmpfile.pl
- +++ b/study_perl/tmpfile.pl
- @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sub clean_tmpfile {
- my $afile = "$DIR_PATH/$file";
- my $now = time();
- if (-e $afile && $afile =~ m/(^.*$PREFIX.*$)/) {
- - #$afile = $1;
- + $afile = $1;
- my $mtime = (stat ($afile))[9];
- my $margin = $now - $mtime;
- print("$afile - Last change: $mtime - now: $now - margin(s): $margin\n");
再次尝试运行,得到正确的结果:
- # perl -T ../tmpfile.pl
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-f036c279daa16297818f6ec2dad9f338 - Last change: 1658904375 - now: 1658904375 - margin(s): 0
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-f532d49f86ae1c486ec593c71a073e73 - Last change: 1658904375 - now: 1658904375 - margin(s): 0
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-e48d74ec998a1462661eb11b7576d7e5 - Last change: 1658904122 - now: 1658904375 - margin(s): 253
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-a071ba8e02d34ef2878d7a698a22b93c - Last change: 1658904122 - now: 1658904375 - margin(s): 253
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-a140c4f6095a0431194a91ead41ce605 - Last change: 1658904375 - now: 1658904375 - margin(s): 0
- /var/tmp/somedemotmpfile-1a63c4b7965dc50c519e7aa68c8b081a - Last change: 1658904122 - now: 1658904375 - margin(s): 253
执行成功,且删除了之前的残留文件。
经过这次问题解决,发现 Perl 在安全方面的特性值得学习,在编译或解释层面阻挡常见安全操作被执行,可以使得我们写出更加安全的代码。
即使不写 perl 代码,使用其他语言写程序时也可有所启发。