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

Andrew Gregory andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 20:54:24 UTC 2018


On 09/22/18 at 09:16pm, morganamilo wrote:
> 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>

NACK.  The trailing slash is in the format string; your version now
has two trailing slashes..

> 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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