maybe a bug in copy files

Pavel Tsekov ptsekov at gmx.net
Wed Feb 28 15:02:52 UTC 2007


Hello Egmont,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Egmont Koblinger wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:38:37PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
>> Ok. Maybe we are talking about different issues. What I was talking
>> about was that the current code in MC requires the chmod() that i've
>> ressurected. From what I understand you was talking that if we change
>> the code we may avoid the chmod() call at the end. Is this right ?
>
> Yes, at least in the "do not preserve permissions" case we could avoid that
> chmod, and hence have a simpler&cleaner code. I hope.

Ok. So if I got what you mean correctly the attached example
code should do the trick ?
-------------- next part --------------
Index: src/file.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/mc/mc/src/file.c,v
retrieving revision 1.149
diff -u -p -r1.149 file.c
--- src/file.c	22 Feb 2007 14:29:11 -0000	1.149
+++ src/file.c	28 Feb 2007 15:02:25 -0000
@@ -474,6 +474,7 @@ copy_file_file (FileOpContext *ctx, cons
     int return_status, temp_status;
     struct timeval tv_transfer_start;
     int dst_status = DEST_NONE;	/* 1 if the file is not fully copied */
+    int open_flags;
 
     /* FIXME: We should not be using global variables! */
     ctx->do_reget = 0;
@@ -606,12 +607,19 @@ copy_file_file (FileOpContext *ctx, cons
     utb.modtime = sb.st_mtime;
     file_size = sb.st_size;
 
-    /* Create the new regular file with small permissions initially,
-       do not create a security hole.  FIXME: You have security hole
-       here, btw. Imagine copying to /tmp and symlink attack :-( */
-
-    while ((dest_desc = mc_open (dst_path, O_WRONLY | (ctx->do_append ?
-    	    O_APPEND : (O_CREAT | O_TRUNC)), 0600)) < 0) {
+    open_flags = O_WRONLY;
+    if (dst_exists != 0) {
+	if (ctx->do_append != 0)
+	    open_flags |= O_APPEND;
+	else
+	    open_flags |= O_CREAT | O_TRUNC;
+    } else {
+	open_flags |= O_CREAT | O_EXCL;
+    }
+    while ((dest_desc = mc_open (dst_path, open_flags, src_mode)) < 0) {
+	if (errno == EEXIST) {
+	    /* Print big fat warning and fail... */
+	}
 	return_status = file_error (
 		_(" Cannot create target file \"%s\" \n %s "), dst_path);
 	if (return_status == FILE_RETRY)


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