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William A. Kennington IIIac69b482021-06-02 12:28:27 -07001From 06915b70735caa66987af758ebdc4207757ae758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -04002From: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>
3Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:33:30 -0700
William A. Kennington IIIac69b482021-06-02 12:28:27 -07004Subject: [PATCH] don't pass AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag to faccessat()
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -04005
6Avoid using AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag. It doesn't seem like the right
7thing to do and it's not portable (not supported by musl). See:
8
9 http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2014-September/003610.html
10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/02/05/2
11
12Note that laccess() is never passing AT_EACCESS so a lot of the
13discussion in the links above doesn't apply. Note also that
14(currently) all systemd callers of laccess() pass mode as F_OK, so
15only check for existence of a file, not access permissions.
16Therefore, in this case, the only distiction between faccessat()
17with (flag == 0) and (flag == AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) is the behaviour
18for broken symlinks; laccess() on a broken symlink will succeed with
19(flag == AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) and fail (flag == 0).
20
21The laccess() macros was added to systemd some time ago and it's not
22clear if or why it needs to return success for broken symlinks. Maybe
23just historical and not actually necessary or desired behaviour?
24
25Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [musl specific]
26
27Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy@gmail.com>
William A. Kennington IIIac69b482021-06-02 12:28:27 -070028
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040029---
William A. Kennington IIIac69b482021-06-02 12:28:27 -070030 src/basic/fs-util.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040031 src/shared/base-filesystem.c | 6 +++---
William A. Kennington IIIac69b482021-06-02 12:28:27 -070032 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040033
Andrew Geisslerd1e89492021-02-12 15:35:20 -060034diff --git a/src/basic/fs-util.h b/src/basic/fs-util.h
William A. Kennington IIIac69b482021-06-02 12:28:27 -070035index 027037f7a7..16eb379caf 100644
Andrew Geisslerd1e89492021-02-12 15:35:20 -060036--- a/src/basic/fs-util.h
37+++ b/src/basic/fs-util.h
William A. Kennington IIIac69b482021-06-02 12:28:27 -070038@@ -44,8 +44,27 @@ int futimens_opath(int fd, const struct timespec ts[2]);
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040039 int fd_warn_permissions(const char *path, int fd);
Andrew Geissler635e0e42020-08-21 15:58:33 -050040 int stat_warn_permissions(const char *path, const struct stat *st);
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040041
William A. Kennington IIIac69b482021-06-02 12:28:27 -070042-#define laccess(path, mode) \
43- (faccessat(AT_FDCWD, (path), (mode), AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) < 0 ? -errno : 0)
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040044+/*
45+ Avoid using AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag. It doesn't seem like the right thing to
46+ do and it's not portable (not supported by musl). See:
47+
48+ http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2014-September/003610.html
49+ http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/02/05/2
50+
51+ Note that laccess() is never passing AT_EACCESS so a lot of the discussion in
52+ the links above doesn't apply. Note also that (currently) all systemd callers
53+ of laccess() pass mode as F_OK, so only check for existence of a file, not
54+ access permissions. Therefore, in this case, the only distiction between
55+ faccessat() with (flag == 0) and (flag == AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) is the
56+ behaviour for broken symlinks; laccess() on a broken symlink will succeed
57+ with (flag == AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) and fail (flag == 0).
58+
59+ The laccess() macros was added to systemd some time ago and it's not clear if
60+ or why it needs to return success for broken symlinks. Maybe just historical
61+ and not actually necessary or desired behaviour?
62+*/
63+
64+#define laccess(path, mode) faccessat(AT_FDCWD, (path), (mode), 0)
65
66 int touch_file(const char *path, bool parents, usec_t stamp, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, mode_t mode);
67 int touch(const char *path);
Andrew Geisslerd1e89492021-02-12 15:35:20 -060068diff --git a/src/shared/base-filesystem.c b/src/shared/base-filesystem.c
69index 1d05409086..1ed06c31ab 100644
70--- a/src/shared/base-filesystem.c
71+++ b/src/shared/base-filesystem.c
72@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int base_filesystem_create(const char *root, uid_t uid, gid_t gid) {
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040073 return log_error_errno(errno, "Failed to open root file system: %m");
74
75 for (i = 0; i < ELEMENTSOF(table); i ++) {
76- if (faccessat(fd, table[i].dir, F_OK, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) >= 0)
77+ if (faccessat(fd, table[i].dir, F_OK, 0) >= 0)
78 continue;
79
80 if (table[i].target) {
Andrew Geisslerd1e89492021-02-12 15:35:20 -060081@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int base_filesystem_create(const char *root, uid_t uid, gid_t gid) {
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040082
83 /* check if one of the targets exists */
84 NULSTR_FOREACH(s, table[i].target) {
85- if (faccessat(fd, s, F_OK, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) < 0)
86+ if (faccessat(fd, s, F_OK, 0) < 0)
87 continue;
88
89 /* check if a specific file exists at the target path */
Andrew Geisslerd1e89492021-02-12 15:35:20 -060090@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ int base_filesystem_create(const char *root, uid_t uid, gid_t gid) {
Brad Bishop19323692019-04-05 15:28:33 -040091 if (!p)
92 return log_oom();
93
94- if (faccessat(fd, p, F_OK, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) < 0)
95+ if (faccessat(fd, p, F_OK, 0) < 0)
96 continue;
97 }
98