From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 02:14:20 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Fix a bug where tar could change perms and ownership of dirs pointed
X-Git-Tag: 0_42~33
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06936df16411fff0fdc338cae28385d66cabcef8;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git

Fix a bug where tar could change perms and ownership of dirs pointed
to by symlink within a tarball.
 -Erik
---

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 4b65b3b27..aa56355c1 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 0.42
 	* Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional.
-	You no longer _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options.
+	* You no longer _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options.
+	* Tar could inadvertently change permissions and ownership on
+	    certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
 	* Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
 	    the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
 	* Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the 
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index adae6c94c..21ef24dcb 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -542,8 +542,10 @@ readHeader (const TarHeader * hp, int fileCount, char **fileTable)
 	printf ("x %s\n", outName);
 
     if (hardLink) {
-	if (link (hp->linkName, outName) < 0)
+	if (link (hp->linkName, outName) < 0) {
 	    perror (outName);
+	    return;
+	}
 	/* Set the file time */
 	utb.actime = mtime;
 	utb.modtime = mtime;
@@ -556,8 +558,10 @@ readHeader (const TarHeader * hp, int fileCount, char **fileTable)
 
     if (softLink) {
 #ifdef	S_ISLNK
-	if (symlink (hp->linkName, outName) < 0)
+	if (symlink (hp->linkName, outName) < 0) {
 	    perror (outName);
+	    return;
+	}
 	/* Try to change ownership of the symlink.
 	 * If libs doesn't support that, don't bother.
 	 * Changing the pointed-to file is the Wrong Thing(tm).
@@ -582,15 +586,16 @@ readHeader (const TarHeader * hp, int fileCount, char **fileTable)
      * If the file is a directory, then just create the path.
      */
     if (S_ISDIR (mode)) {
-	createPath (outName, mode);
-	/* Set the file time */
-	utb.actime = mtime;
-	utb.modtime = mtime;
-	utime (outName, &utb);
-	/* Set the file permissions */
-	chown(outName, uid, gid);
-	chmod(outName, mode);
-	return;
+	if (createPath (outName, mode)==TRUE) { 
+	    /* Set the file time */
+	    utb.actime = mtime;
+	    utb.modtime = mtime;
+	    utime (outName, &utb);
+	    /* Set the file permissions */
+	    chown(outName, uid, gid);
+	    chmod(outName, mode);
+	    return;
+	}
     }
 
     /* 
diff --git a/internal.h b/internal.h
index e57096d4a..2b07d672d 100644
--- a/internal.h
+++ b/internal.h
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ int recursiveAction(const char *fileName, int recurse, int followLinks, int dept
 	  int (*dirAction) (const char *fileName, struct stat* statbuf));
 const char* timeString(time_t timeVal);
 
-extern void createPath (const char *name, int mode);
+extern int createPath (const char *name, int mode);
 extern int parse_mode( const char* s, mode_t* theMode);
 extern void usage(const char *usage) __attribute__ ((noreturn));
 
diff --git a/tar.c b/tar.c
index adae6c94c..21ef24dcb 100644
--- a/tar.c
+++ b/tar.c
@@ -542,8 +542,10 @@ readHeader (const TarHeader * hp, int fileCount, char **fileTable)
 	printf ("x %s\n", outName);
 
     if (hardLink) {
-	if (link (hp->linkName, outName) < 0)
+	if (link (hp->linkName, outName) < 0) {
 	    perror (outName);
+	    return;
+	}
 	/* Set the file time */
 	utb.actime = mtime;
 	utb.modtime = mtime;
@@ -556,8 +558,10 @@ readHeader (const TarHeader * hp, int fileCount, char **fileTable)
 
     if (softLink) {
 #ifdef	S_ISLNK
-	if (symlink (hp->linkName, outName) < 0)
+	if (symlink (hp->linkName, outName) < 0) {
 	    perror (outName);
+	    return;
+	}
 	/* Try to change ownership of the symlink.
 	 * If libs doesn't support that, don't bother.
 	 * Changing the pointed-to file is the Wrong Thing(tm).
@@ -582,15 +586,16 @@ readHeader (const TarHeader * hp, int fileCount, char **fileTable)
      * If the file is a directory, then just create the path.
      */
     if (S_ISDIR (mode)) {
-	createPath (outName, mode);
-	/* Set the file time */
-	utb.actime = mtime;
-	utb.modtime = mtime;
-	utime (outName, &utb);
-	/* Set the file permissions */
-	chown(outName, uid, gid);
-	chmod(outName, mode);
-	return;
+	if (createPath (outName, mode)==TRUE) { 
+	    /* Set the file time */
+	    utb.actime = mtime;
+	    utb.modtime = mtime;
+	    utime (outName, &utb);
+	    /* Set the file permissions */
+	    chown(outName, uid, gid);
+	    chmod(outName, mode);
+	    return;
+	}
     }
 
     /* 
diff --git a/utility.c b/utility.c
index ade47bde0..4b67ce9b7 100644
--- a/utility.c
+++ b/utility.c
@@ -495,11 +495,12 @@ recursiveAction(const char *fileName, int recurse, int followLinks, int depthFir
  * while all previous ones get default protections.  Errors are not reported
  * here, as failures to restore files can be reported later.
  */
-extern void createPath (const char *name, int mode)
+extern int createPath (const char *name, int mode)
 {
     char *cp;
     char *cpOld;
     char buf[NAME_MAX];
+    int retVal=0;
 
     strcpy( buf, name);
     cp = strchr (buf, '/');
@@ -507,9 +508,17 @@ extern void createPath (const char *name, int mode)
 	cpOld = cp;
 	cp = strchr (cp + 1, '/');
 	*cpOld = '\0';
-	mkdir (buf, cp ? 0777 : mode);
+	retVal = mkdir (buf, cp ? 0777 : mode);
 	*cpOld = '/';
     }
+    /* Return the result from the final directory, as that
+     * is the one that counts */
+    if( retVal!=0) {
+	if ( errno!=EEXIST) {
+	    return( FALSE);
+	}
+    }
+    return( TRUE);
 }
 #endif