[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] pacman: give path too long error after strcat

morganamilo morganamilo at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 20:16:45 UTC 2018


The string only becomes longer than PATH_MAX once adding "/" to the end.
The error message should give this version of the path.

Signed-off-by: morganamilo <morganamilo at gmail.com>

diff --git a/src/pacman/query.c b/src/pacman/query.c
index a1197cea..ecf8d148 100644
--- a/src/pacman/query.c
+++ b/src/pacman/query.c
@@ -207,15 +207,15 @@ static int query_fileowner(alpm_list_t *targets)
 		rel_path = rpath + rootlen;
 
 		if((is_missing && is_dir) || (!is_missing && (is_dir = S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)))) {
-			if(rlen + 2 >= PATH_MAX) {
-					pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_ERROR, _("path too long: %s/\n"), rpath);
-					goto targcleanup;
-			}
 			if ((rpathsave = realloc(rpath, rlen + 2)) == NULL) {
 				goto targcleanup;
 			}
 			rpath = rpathsave;
 			strcat(rpath + rlen, "/");
+			if(rlen + 2 >= PATH_MAX) {
+					pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_ERROR, _("path too long: %s/\n"), rpath);
+					goto targcleanup;
+			}
 		}
 
 		for(i = packages; i && (!found || is_dir); i = alpm_list_next(i)) {
-- 
2.19.0


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