open() with O_CREAT|O_EXCL yields EEXIST if the name passed in is a
symlink, but we would like "ovsdb-tool create /etc/openvswitch/conf.db" to
work if /etc/openvswitch/conf.db is a symlink to elsewhere in the file
system. This commit fixes the problem. It introduces a theoretical race,
but no one should be doing "ovsdb-tool create" in parallel anyhow; O_EXCL
is just an idiot check here, not required to be fail-safe.
Debian bug #681880.
CC: 681880@bugs.debian.org
Reported-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
-/* Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Nicira, Inc.
+/* Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Nicira, Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
} else if (open_mode == OVSDB_LOG_READ_WRITE) {
flags = O_RDWR;
} else if (open_mode == OVSDB_LOG_CREATE) {
} else if (open_mode == OVSDB_LOG_READ_WRITE) {
flags = O_RDWR;
} else if (open_mode == OVSDB_LOG_CREATE) {
- flags = O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL;
+ if (stat(name, &s) == -1 && errno == ENOENT
+ && lstat(name, &s) == 0 && S_ISLNK(s.st_mode)) {
+ /* 'name' is a dangling symlink. We want to create the file that
+ * the symlink points to, but POSIX says that open() with O_EXCL
+ * must fail with EEXIST if the named file is a symlink. So, we
+ * have to leave off O_EXCL and accept the race. */
+ flags = O_RDWR | O_CREAT;
+ } else {
+ flags = O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL;
+ }
} else {
NOT_REACHED();
}
} else {
NOT_REACHED();
}