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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2011-06-20 16:55:24 -0600
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2011-06-22 14:55:57 -0600
commitdffc41f946b434d75be1289dbbc0509e9e843280 (patch)
tree0b31890efafc53273906aba7a1e573f2b67c75c4 /lib/stat.c
parentdf1c2344f29dbca57d9e560aaa89aa2c20cdda7f (diff)
downloadgnulib-dffc41f946b434d75be1289dbbc0509e9e843280.tar.gz
stat: be robust to PATH_MAX definition
Make this stack-allocation of PATH_MAX bytes more robust. * lib/stat.c (rpl_stat): Require reasonable PATH_MAX. * modules/stat (Depends-on): Add verify. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stat.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/stat.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stat.c b/lib/stat.c
index cbc9100fd4..f07370dd06 100644
--- a/lib/stat.c
+++ b/lib/stat.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ orig_stat (const char *filename, struct stat *buf)
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "dosname.h"
+#include "verify.h"
/* Store information about NAME into ST. Work around bugs with
trailing slashes. Mingw has other bugs (such as st_ino always
@@ -63,6 +64,12 @@ rpl_stat (char const *name, struct stat *st)
}
#endif /* REPLACE_FUNC_STAT_FILE */
#if REPLACE_FUNC_STAT_DIR
+ /* The only known systems where REPLACE_FUNC_STAT_DIR is needed also
+ have a constant PATH_MAX. */
+# ifndef PATH_MAX
+# error "Please port this replacement to your platform"
+# endif
+
if (result == -1 && errno == ENOENT)
{
/* Due to mingw's oddities, there are some directories (like
@@ -77,6 +84,7 @@ rpl_stat (char const *name, struct stat *st)
char fixed_name[PATH_MAX + 1] = {0};
size_t len = strlen (name);
bool check_dir = false;
+ verify (PATH_MAX <= 4096);
if (PATH_MAX <= len)
errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
else if (len)