}
char* parent = dirname(dirname_path_copy);
+ basename_path_copy = strdup(path);
+ if (basename_path_copy == NULL) {
+ perror("apply_default_acl (strdup)");
+ result = ACL_ERROR;
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
+ char* child = basename(basename_path_copy);
+
/* Just kidding, if the path is "." or "..", then dirname will do
* the wrong thing and give us "." as its parent, too. So, we handle
- * those as special cases.
+ * those as special cases. We use "child" instead of "path" here to
+ * catch things like "./" and "../"
*/
- bool path_is_dots = strcmp(path, ".") == 0 || strcmp(path, "..") == 0;
+ bool path_is_dots = strcmp(child, ".") == 0 || strcmp(child, "..") == 0;
char dots_parent[6] = "../";
if (path_is_dots) {
- parent = strcat(dots_parent, path);
+ parent = strcat(dots_parent, child);
}
parent_fd = safe_open(parent, O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW);
}
/* We already obtained the parent fd safely, so if we use the
- basename of path here instead of the full thing, then we can get
- away with using openat() and spare ourselves the slowness of
- another safe_open(). */
- basename_path_copy = strdup(path);
- if (basename_path_copy == NULL) {
- perror("apply_default_acl (strdup)");
- result = ACL_ERROR;
- goto cleanup;
- }
-
- /* If the basename is "." or "..", then we don't want to open it
- relative to the parent_fd, so we need another special case for
- those paths. */
+ * basename of path here instead of the full thing, then we can get
+ * away with using openat() and spare ourselves the slowness of
+ * another safe_open().
+ *
+ * Note that if the basename is "." or "..", then we don't want to
+ * open it relative to the parent_fd, so we need another special
+ * case for those paths here.
+ */
if (path_is_dots) {
- fd = open(path, O_NOFOLLOW);
+ fd = open(child, O_NOFOLLOW);
}
else {
- fd = openat(parent_fd, basename(basename_path_copy), O_NOFOLLOW);
+ fd = openat(parent_fd, child, O_NOFOLLOW);
}
if (fd == OPEN_ERROR) {
if (errno == ELOOP || errno == ENOTDIR) {