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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2012-02-04 11:11:40 -0700
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2012-02-04 11:41:56 -0700
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canonicalize: avoid uninitialized memory use
When DOUBLE_SLASH_IS_DISTINCT_ROOT is non-zero, then we were reading the contents of rpath[1] even when we had never written anything there, which meant that "///" would usually canonicalize to "/" but sometimes to "//" if a '/' was leftover in the heap. This condition could also occur via 'ln -s / //some/path' and canonicalizing //some/path, where we rewind rpath but do not clear out the previous round. Platforms where "//" and "/" are equivalent do not suffer from this read-beyond-written bounds. * lib/canonicalize-lgpl.c (__realpath): Avoid possibility of random '/' left in dest. * lib/canonicalize.c (canonicalize_filename_mode): Likewise. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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