Improve 'zpool import' safety

There are three improvements here to 'zpool import' proposed by Fajar
in Github issue #98.  They are all good so I'm commiting all three.

1) Add descriptions for "hpet" and "core" blacklist entries.

2) Add "core" to the blacklist, as described in the issue accessing
this device will crash Xen dom0.

3) Refine probing behavior to use fstatat64().  This allows us to
determine if a device is a block device or a regular file without
having to open it.  This is the safest appraoch when probing /dev/
because the simple act of opening a device may have unexpected
consequences.

Closes #98

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_import.c b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_import.c
index 8668583b2..7048a52c9 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_import.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_import.c
@@ -1078,6 +1078,10 @@ zpool_find_import_impl(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, importargs_t *iarg)
 			 * parport* - Parallel port interface.
 			 * lp*      - Printer interface.
 			 * fd*      - Floppy interface.
+			 * hpet     - High Precision Event Timer, crashes qemu
+			 *            when accessed from a virtual machine.
+			 * core     - Symlink to /proc/kcore, causes a crash
+			 *            when access from Xen dom0.
 			 */
 			if ((strncmp(name, "watchdog", 8) == 0) ||
 			    (strncmp(name, "fuse", 4) == 0)     ||
@@ -1087,22 +1091,21 @@ zpool_find_import_impl(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, importargs_t *iarg)
 			    (strncmp(name, "parport", 7) == 0)  ||
 			    (strncmp(name, "lp", 2) == 0)       ||
 			    (strncmp(name, "fd", 2) == 0)       ||
-			    (strncmp(name, "hpet", 4) == 0))
-				continue;
-
-			if ((fd = openat64(dfd, name, O_RDONLY)) < 0)
+			    (strncmp(name, "hpet", 4) == 0)     ||
+			    (strncmp(name, "core", 4) == 0))
 				continue;
 
 			/*
 			 * Ignore failed stats.  We only want regular
-			 * files and block devs.
+			 * files and block devices.
 			 */
-			if (fstat64(fd, &statbuf) != 0 ||
+			if ((fstatat64(dfd, name, &statbuf, 0) != 0) ||
 			    (!S_ISREG(statbuf.st_mode) &&
-			    !S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode))) {
-				(void) close(fd);
+			    !S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode)))
+				continue;
+
+			if ((fd = openat64(dfd, name, O_RDONLY)) < 0)
 				continue;
-			}
 
 			if ((zpool_read_label(fd, &config)) != 0) {
 				(void) close(fd);