Fix renaming broken symbolic link

Closes: #212

The fix is simply to not follow links when opening a file to be renamed.
O_NOFOLLOW, a non-POSIX extension, does exactly that while not needing
renameat or openat.
This commit is contained in:
Josh Megnauth
2025-09-07 00:50:52 -04:00
committed by Josh Megnauth
parent adc8f9f3b3
commit 55c2e5b8ea
2 changed files with 37 additions and 78 deletions
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@@ -908,7 +908,10 @@ impl Pal for Sys {
let newpath = newpath.to_str().map_err(|_| Errno(EINVAL))?;
let newpath = canonicalize(newpath).map_err(|_| Errno(EINVAL))?;
let file = File::open(oldpath, fcntl::O_PATH | fcntl::O_CLOEXEC)?;
let file = File::open(
oldpath,
fcntl::O_NOFOLLOW | fcntl::O_PATH | fcntl::O_CLOEXEC,
)?;
syscall::frename(*file as usize, newpath)?;
Ok(())
}
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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
#include <assert.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
@@ -11,26 +12,6 @@ static char oldpath[] = "old-name.out";
static char newpath[] = "new-name.out";
static char str[] = "Hello, World!";
__attribute__((nonnull))
static char* join_paths(const char* dir, const char* name) {
size_t dir_len = strlen(dir);
// Length of directory, backslash, name, and NUL
size_t full_len = dir_len + 2 + strlen(name);
char* path = (char*) malloc(full_len);
if (!path) {
return NULL;
}
// SAFETY: Path is memset to 0 so it always ends in a NUL
memset(path, 0, full_len);
strncpy(path, dir, dir_len);
path[dir_len] = '/';
strncpy(&path[dir_len + 1], name, strlen(name));
return path;
}
// Test that renaming a broken symbolic link works.
// Symlinks should not be resolved by rename.
// One of the problems that arises when links are resolved is that
@@ -39,47 +20,39 @@ static char* join_paths(const char* dir, const char* name) {
// This test returns EXIT_FAILURE/EXIT_SUCCESS because it needs to clean
// up temporary files on failure. The test helpers call _exit.
int rename_broken_symlink(void) {
int result = EXIT_FAILURE;
char dir_template[] = "/tmp/sltest.XXXXXX";
size_t dlen = sizeof(dir_template) - 1;
char* temp_dir = mkdtemp(dir_template);
if (!temp_dir) {
perror("mkdtemp");
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
// TODO: Almost all of the code below can be vastly simplified
// with openat/symlinkat later.
// Broken link to be created
const char link_name[] = "sym";
const char* link_path = join_paths(temp_dir, link_name);
if (!link_path) {
fputs("Allocating string for symlink failed", stderr);
rmdir(temp_dir);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
char link_path[PATH_MAX] = {0};
memcpy(link_path, temp_dir, dlen);
link_path[dlen] = '/';
memcpy(&link_path[dlen + 1], link_name, sizeof(link_name));
// Non-existing target
const char link_target[] = "target";
const char* target_path = join_paths(temp_dir, link_target);
if (!target_path) {
fputs("Allocating string for link target path failed", stderr);
free((void*) link_path);
rmdir(temp_dir);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
char target_path[PATH_MAX] = {0};
memcpy(target_path, temp_dir, dlen);
target_path[dlen] = '/';
memcpy(&target_path[dlen + 1], link_target, sizeof(link_target));
// New name of link (i.e. mv sym symrename)
const char link_rename[] = "symrename";
const char* rename_path = join_paths(temp_dir, link_rename);
if (!rename_path) {
fputs("Allocating string for renamed symlink failed", stderr);
free((void*) target_path);
free((void*) link_path);
rmdir(temp_dir);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
char rename_path[PATH_MAX] = {0};
memcpy(rename_path, temp_dir, dlen);
rename_path[dlen] = '/';
memcpy(&rename_path[dlen + 1], link_rename, sizeof(link_rename));
// Target most definitely does NOT exist.
// This is a sanity check that shouldn't fail as test uses temp dirs.
@@ -89,49 +62,32 @@ int rename_broken_symlink(void) {
"Target exists when it shouldn't: %s\n",
target_path
);
close(target_fd);
free((void*) rename_path);
free((void*) target_path);
free((void*) link_path);
rmdir(temp_dir);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
// Skip clean up on the very exceptional case that the
// randomized dir and file exists.
goto skip_cleanup;
}
// Create a broken symlink in a temp directory
if (symlink(target_path, link_path) < 0) {
perror("symlink");
free((void*) rename_path);
free((void*) target_path);
free((void*) link_path);
rmdir(temp_dir);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
goto cleanup;
}
// Rename the link; this should work even if target doesn't exist
if (rename(link_path, rename_path) < 0) {
perror("rename");
unlink(link_path);
free((void*) rename_path);
free((void*) target_path);
free((void*) link_path);
rmdir(temp_dir);
return EXIT_FAILURE;
goto cleanup;
}
// TODO: Assert paths exist (needs openat)
assert(unlink(rename_path) == 0);
free((void*) rename_path);
free((void*) target_path);
free((void*) link_path);
assert(rmdir(temp_dir) == 0);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
result = EXIT_SUCCESS;
cleanup:
unlink(link_path);
unlink(rename_path);
rmdir(temp_dir);
skip_cleanup:
return result;
}
int main(void) {
@@ -178,6 +134,6 @@ int main(void) {
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
// TEST DISABLED until relibc#212 fixed.
// assert(rename_broken_symlink() == EXIT_SUCCESS);
int broken_symlink_res = rename_broken_symlink();
assert(broken_symlink_res == EXIT_SUCCESS);
}