From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:25:31 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: hwdb: strip the root from filenames when generating hwdb.bin
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hwdb: strip the root from filenames when generating hwdb.bin

The modern hwdb.bin format contains the filenames of the input data that
makes up the database.  This is useful but in offline builds where
--root is used, the filenames are the full build paths including the
specified root.  This introduces build paths and thus information
leakage and non-reproducible data.

Solve this by stripping the root prefix off the original path when
passing to import_file.

Add TEST-17-UDEV.hwdb.sh to verify that hwdb.bin files contain the
path inside the root, but not the path of the root.
---

diff --git a/src/shared/hwdb-util.c b/src/shared/hwdb-util.c
index b3c48e2a5f6..f6415694e1a 100644
--- a/src/shared/hwdb-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/hwdb-util.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ static int import_file(struct trie *trie, int fd, const char *filename, uint16_t
 }
 
 int hwdb_update(const char *root, const char *hwdb_bin_dir, bool strict, bool compat) {
-        _cleanup_free_ char *hwdb_bin = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ char *hwdb_bin = NULL, *root_abs = NULL;
         _cleanup_(trie_freep) struct trie *trie = NULL;
         uint16_t file_priority = 1;
         int r, ret = 0;
@@ -588,7 +588,18 @@ int hwdb_update(const char *root, const char *hwdb_bin_dir, bool strict, bool co
          * source. If true, then hwdb.bin will be created without the information. systemd-hwdb command
          * should set the argument false, and 'udevadm hwdb' command should set it true. */
 
-        hwdb_bin = path_join(root, hwdb_bin_dir ?: "/etc/udev", "hwdb.bin");
+        r = empty_or_root_harder_to_null(&root);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to determine if '%s' points to the root directory: %m", strempty(root));
+
+        if (root) {
+                r = path_make_absolute_cwd(root, &root_abs);
+                if (r < 0)
+                        return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to make '%s' absolute: %m", root);
+                path_simplify(root_abs);
+        }
+
+        hwdb_bin = path_join(root_abs, hwdb_bin_dir ?: "/etc/udev", "hwdb.bin");
         if (!hwdb_bin)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -613,7 +624,7 @@ int hwdb_update(const char *root, const char *hwdb_bin_dir, bool strict, bool co
 
         CLEANUP_ARRAY(files, n_files, conf_file_free_array);
 
-        r = conf_files_list_strv_full(".hwdb", root,
+        r = conf_files_list_strv_full(".hwdb", root_abs,
                                       CONF_FILES_REGULAR | CONF_FILES_FILTER_MASKED | CONF_FILES_WARN,
                                       conf_file_dirs, &files, &n_files);
         if (r < 0)
@@ -635,7 +646,13 @@ int hwdb_update(const char *root, const char *hwdb_bin_dir, bool strict, bool co
                 ConfFile *c = *i;
 
                 log_debug("Reading file \"%s\" -> \"%s\"", c->original_path, c->resolved_path);
-                RET_GATHER(ret, import_file(trie, c->fd, c->original_path, file_priority++, compat));
+
+                const char *path_in_root = path_startswith_full(c->original_path,
+                                                                empty_to_root(root_abs),
+                                                                PATH_STARTSWITH_RETURN_LEADING_SLASH);
+                assert(path_in_root);
+
+                RET_GATHER(ret, import_file(trie, c->fd, path_in_root, file_priority++, compat));
         }
 
         strbuf_complete(trie->strings);
diff --git a/test/units/TEST-17-UDEV.hwdb.sh b/test/units/TEST-17-UDEV.hwdb.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..c953fbdb27c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/units/TEST-17-UDEV.hwdb.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+set -eux
+set -o pipefail
+
+if ! command -v systemd-hwdb >/dev/null; then
+    echo "systemd-hwdb not found, skipping."
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+# shellcheck source=test/units/util.sh
+. "$(dirname "$0")"/util.sh
+
+at_exit() (
+    set +e
+
+    [[ -d "$ROOTFS" ]] && rm -rf "$ROOTFS"
+)
+trap at_exit EXIT
+
+ROOTFS="$(mktemp -d -t test-17-udev-hwdb.XXXX)"
+HWDB=$ROOTFS/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d
+
+mkdir -p "$HWDB"
+cat >"$HWDB/99-test.hwdb" <<EOF
+scsi:*
+  ID_TEST=test
+EOF
+
+systemd-hwdb update --root "$ROOTFS" --usr
+
+# check the rootfs path does not appear in hwdb.bin
+run_and_grep -n "$ROOTFS" strings "$ROOTFS/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.bin"
+# check the path in the rootfs does appear in hwdb.bin
+run_and_grep 99-test.hwdb strings "$ROOTFS/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.bin"