file: write through symlinks on uci commit

The rename() syscall operates on the destination path directly, therfore
resolve the real path before doing the rename to not clobber the destination
in case it is a symlink pointing to another file.

Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index 35755d8..7e1e4e6 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -800,9 +800,13 @@ done:
 	free(name);
 	free(path);
 	uci_close_stream(f1);
-	if (do_rename && rename(filename, p->path)) {
-		unlink(filename);
-		UCI_THROW(ctx, UCI_ERR_IO);
+	if (do_rename) {
+		path = realpath(p->path, NULL);
+		if (!path || rename(filename, path)) {
+			unlink(filename);
+			UCI_THROW(ctx, UCI_ERR_IO);
+		}
+		free(path);
 	}
 	free(filename);
 	if (ctx->err)