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From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
To: libc-stable@sourceware.org
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: [committed 2.34] realpath: Avoid overwriting preexisting error (CVE-2021-3998)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:46:05 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220124161605.3778315-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org> (raw)

Set errno and failure for paths that are too long only if no other error
occurred earlier.

Related: BZ #28770

Reviewed-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
(cherry picked from commit 84d2d0fe20bdf94feed82b21b4d7d136db471f03)
---
 stdlib/canonicalize.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/stdlib/canonicalize.c b/stdlib/canonicalize.c
index 7a23a51b3a..e2d4244fc7 100644
--- a/stdlib/canonicalize.c
+++ b/stdlib/canonicalize.c
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ error:
     {
       if (dest - rname <= get_path_max ())
 	rname = strcpy (resolved, rname);
-      else
+      else if (!failed)
 	{
 	  failed = true;
 	  __set_errno (ENAMETOOLONG);
-- 
2.34.1


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