[Toybox] [PATCH] cpio: Don't lchown() if -t is specified

Yi-Yo Chiang yochiang at google.com
Fri Apr 23 10:52:39 PDT 2021


When using -t to inspect an archive, cpio would try to set the owner of
any symlink in the archive, even though the symlink wasn't created by
the command previously.

This would lead to two results, either the command fails with a "No such
file or directory" message when trying to lchown() the symlink path, or
an existing file, with the name of the symlink, is lchown()-ed.

Guard the lchown() function call with a "if (!FLAG(t))" block, and add
regression test for this.

---
 tests/cpio.test   | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 toys/posix/cpio.c | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/cpio.test b/tests/cpio.test
index 34794841..183dadde 100755
--- a/tests/cpio.test
+++ b/tests/cpio.test
@@ -63,3 +63,22 @@ testing "skip NUL" "for i in a b; do dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 2>/dev/null;
 rm -rf a a.cpio
 
 testing "error on empty file" "cpio -i 2>/dev/null || echo err" "err\n" "" ""
+
+mkdir a
+touch a/file
+ln -s a/symlink a/symlink
+mkdir a/dir
+find a | cpio -o -H newc >a.cpio
+if [ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ]; then
+  # We chown between user "root" and the last user in /etc/passwd,
+  # and group "root" and the last group in /etc/group.
+  USR="$(sed -n '$s/:.*//p' /etc/passwd)"
+  GRP="$(sed -n '$s/:.*//p' /etc/group)"
+  # Or if that fails, we assume we're on Android...
+  : "${USR:=shell}"
+  : "${GRP:=shell}"
+  chown -h "${USR}:${GRP}" a/file a/symlink a/dir
+fi
+skipnot [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]
+testing "-t preserve ownership" "cpio -t <a.cpio >/dev/null && stat -c '%U:%G' a/file a/symlink a/dir" "${USR}:${GRP}\n${USR}:${GRP}\n${USR}:${GRP}\n" "" ""
+rm -rf a a.cpio
diff --git a/toys/posix/cpio.c b/toys/posix/cpio.c
index 07c294f0..35b74b3b 100644
--- a/toys/posix/cpio.c
+++ b/toys/posix/cpio.c
@@ -166,11 +166,13 @@ void cpio_main(void)
       if (!test) err = mkdir(name, mode) && !FLAG(u);
     } else if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
       data = strpad(afd, size, 0);
-      if (!test) err = symlink(data, name);
+      if (!test) {
+        err = symlink(data, name);
+        // Can't get a filehandle to a symlink, so do special chown
+        if (!err && !geteuid() && !FLAG(no_preserve_owner))
+          err = lchown(name, uid, gid);
+      }
       free(data);
-      // Can't get a filehandle to a symlink, so do special chown
-      if (!err && !geteuid() && !FLAG(no_preserve_owner))
-        err = lchown(name, uid, gid);
     } else if (S_ISREG(mode)) {
       int fd = test ? 0 : open(name, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_EXCL|O_NOFOLLOW, mode);
 
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2.31.1.498.g6c1eba8ee3d-goog



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