Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 14832] New: futimens (AT_FDCWD, arg) should fail

[Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>]

According to Andrew Morton on 12/22/2009 3:31 PM:
> Confused.
> 
> : long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, int flags)
> : {
> : 	int error = -EINVAL;
> : 
> : 	if (times && (!nsec_valid(times[0].tv_nsec) ||
> : 		      !nsec_valid(times[1].tv_nsec))) {
> : 		goto out;
> : 	}
> : 
> : 	if (flags & ~AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)
> : 		goto out;
> : 
> : 	if (filename == NULL && dfd != AT_FDCWD) {
> : 		struct file *file;
> : 
> : 		if (flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)
> : 			goto out;
> : 
> : 		file = fget(dfd);
> : 		error = -EBADF;
> : 		if (!file)
> : 			goto out;
> : 
> 
> afacit, if filename==NULL and dfd==-1 then fget() will return NULL and
> the syscall returns -EBAFD.

Yes, that's true if dfd==-1.  But My complaint was not about dfd==-1, but
about dfd==AT_FDCWD, in which case, this block of code is skipped, and you
end up operating on the current directory ".".  My point is that the line:
 if (filename == NULL && dfd != AT_FDCWD) {
should probably be:
 if (filename == NULL) {
assuming that fget(AT_FDCWD) likewise fails.

> 
> Your report doesn't tell us what kernel version you're testing.  We did
> fix a few things ni this area, but it was a long time ago.

Yesterday, Ulrich patched glibc to avoid the issue from the library side
of things (I first raised the report against glibc 2 months ago, along
with a proposed patch:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10992).  But there is
still the case of newer kernels and unpatched glibc, where it would also
be nice to patch the kernel.  I reproduced the bug on
2.6.31.6-166.fc12.i686, where this test (part of coreutils' configure
script) failed with status 2:

| #include <fcntl.h>
| #include <sys/stat.h>
| #include <unistd.h>
|
| int
| main ()
| {
| struct timespec ts[2] = { { 1, UTIME_OMIT }, { 1, UTIME_NOW } };
|       int fd = creat ("conftest.file", 0600);
|       struct stat st;
|       if (fd < 0) return 1;
|       if (futimens (AT_FDCWD, NULL)) return 2;
|       if (futimens (fd, ts)) return 3;
|       sleep (1);
|       ts[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
|       ts[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
|       if (futimens (fd, ts)) return 4;
|       if (fstat (fd, &st)) return 5;
|       if (st.st_ctime < st.st_atime) return 6;
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }


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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net