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authorRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2020-01-28 21:49:52 -0600
committerRob Landley <rob@landley.net>2020-01-28 21:49:52 -0600
commit70ab2dfb923e98fc1b0af27ec98efd0220fe6de6 (patch)
tree7ce4ac3b71e6c31a762956efa09a1bbcc89ac341 /toys/posix
parent3d4a1f6a0eccf8f910919c4605a3b17b9f5a1070 (diff)
downloadtoybox-70ab2dfb923e98fc1b0af27ec98efd0220fe6de6.tar.gz
David Legault complained that dir/.* tells rm to delete dir/.. and we'd do it.
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-rw-r--r--toys/posix/rm.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/toys/posix/rm.c b/toys/posix/rm.c
index 2a6bc282..eec586c5 100644
--- a/toys/posix/rm.c
+++ b/toys/posix/rm.c
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ void rm_main(void)
error_msg("rm /. if you mean it");
continue;
}
+ // "rm dir/.*" can expand to include .. which generally isn't what you want
+ if (!strcmp("..", basename(*s))) {
+ error_msg("bad path %s", *s);
+ continue;
+ }
// Files that already don't exist aren't errors for -f, so try a quick
// unlink now to see if it succeeds or reports that it didn't exist.