From b6cce31ec4d8232d6400fe4fe915f53d285a3b4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:35:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] helper: Don't fail if objects are created in a symlinked dir (RHBZ#698089). --- helper/ext2.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/helper/ext2.c b/helper/ext2.c index 2fc8036..705facc 100644 --- a/helper/ext2.c +++ b/helper/ext2.c @@ -402,6 +402,20 @@ ext2_file_stat (const char *orig_filename, const struct stat *statbuf) dirname = strndup (orig_filename, p-orig_filename); basename = p+1; + /* If the parent directory is a symlink to another directory, then + * we want to look up the target directory. (RHBZ#698089). + */ + struct stat stat1, stat2; + if (lstat (dirname, &stat1) == 0 && S_ISLNK (stat1.st_mode) && + stat (dirname, &stat2) == 0 && S_ISDIR (stat2.st_mode)) { + char *new_dirname = malloc (PATH_MAX+1); + ssize_t r = readlink (dirname, new_dirname, PATH_MAX+1); + if (r == -1) + error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "readlink: %s", orig_filename); + new_dirname[r] = '\0'; + dirname = new_dirname; + } + /* Look up the parent directory. */ err = ext2fs_namei (fs, EXT2_ROOT_INO, EXT2_ROOT_INO, dirname, &dir_ino); if (err != 0) -- 1.8.3.1