work around linux bug in readlink syscall with zero buffer size

linux fails with EINVAL when a zero buffer size is passed to the
syscall. this is non-conforming because POSIX already defines EINVAL
with a significantly different meaning: the target is not a symlink.

since the request is semantically valid, patch it up by using a dummy
buffer of length one, and truncating the return value to zero if it
succeeds.
This commit is contained in:
Rich Felker 2020-11-23 19:44:19 -05:00
parent c17cda6d61
commit e2fa720be7
2 changed files with 17 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -4,9 +4,16 @@
ssize_t readlink(const char *restrict path, char *restrict buf, size_t bufsize) ssize_t readlink(const char *restrict path, char *restrict buf, size_t bufsize)
{ {
char dummy[1];
if (!bufsize) {
buf = dummy;
bufsize = 1;
}
#ifdef SYS_readlink #ifdef SYS_readlink
return syscall(SYS_readlink, path, buf, bufsize); int r = __syscall(SYS_readlink, path, buf, bufsize);
#else #else
return syscall(SYS_readlinkat, AT_FDCWD, path, buf, bufsize); int r = __syscall(SYS_readlinkat, AT_FDCWD, path, buf, bufsize);
#endif #endif
if (buf == dummy && r > 0) r = 0;
return __syscall_ret(r);
} }

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@ -3,5 +3,12 @@
ssize_t readlinkat(int fd, const char *restrict path, char *restrict buf, size_t bufsize) ssize_t readlinkat(int fd, const char *restrict path, char *restrict buf, size_t bufsize)
{ {
return syscall(SYS_readlinkat, fd, path, buf, bufsize); char dummy[1];
if (!bufsize) {
buf = dummy;
bufsize = 1;
}
int r = __syscall(SYS_readlinkat, fd, path, buf, bufsize);
if (buf == dummy && r > 0) r = 0;
return __syscall_ret(r);
} }