[PATCH 1/2] alpm: test access of symlinks not where they point

[Andrew Gregory]

On 10/01/21 at 11:00pm, morganamilo wrote:
> Fixes FS#69720
> ---
>  lib/libalpm/util.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/libalpm/util.c b/lib/libalpm/util.c
> index 299d287e..e7b049ce 100644
> --- a/lib/libalpm/util.c
> +++ b/lib/libalpm/util.c
> @@ -1342,11 +1342,11 @@ int _alpm_access(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *dir, const char *file, int a
>  		CALLOC(check_path, len, sizeof(char), RET_ERR(handle, ALPM_ERR_MEMORY, -1));
>  		snprintf(check_path, len, "%s%s", dir, file);
>  
> -		ret = access(check_path, amode);
> +		ret = faccessat(AT_FDCWD, check_path, amode, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
>  		free(check_path);
>  	} else {
>  		dir = "";
> -		ret = access(file, amode);
> +		ret = faccessat(AT_FDCWD, file, amode, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
>  	}
>  
>  	if(ret != 0) {

AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW is a Linux extension.