The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit c922a8f681dc27135947ebdaff68fc3158614807 Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> Date: Thu Sep 8 19:12:20 2011 +0200
u-a: Do not try to readlink() a non-symlink Return early in case the path is not a symlink, there's no point in calling readlink() if we know it's going to fail. diff --git a/utils/update-alternatives.c b/utils/update-alternatives.c index b8654fa..03ceb6d 100644 --- a/utils/update-alternatives.c +++ b/utils/update-alternatives.c @@ -289,6 +289,12 @@ areadlink(const char *linkname) /* Allocate required memory to store the value of the symlink */ if (lstat(linkname, &st)) return NULL; + + if (!S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) { + errno = EINVAL; + return NULL; + } + buf = xmalloc(st.st_size + 1); /* Read it and terminate the string properly */ -- dpkg's main repository -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-cvs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org