[systemd-devel] [RESEND][PATCH] systemd-tmpfiles: Fix IGNORE_DIRECTORY_PATH age handling

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Tue Sep 9 02:09:37 PDT 2014


If one has a config like:
d /tmp 1777 root root -
X /tmp/important_mount

All files below /tmp/important_mount will be deleted as the
/tmp/important_mount item will spuriously inherit a max age of 0
from /tmp.
/tmp has a max age of 0 but age_set is (of course) false.

This affects also the PrivateTmp feature of systemd.
All tmp files of such services will be deleted unconditionally
and can cause service failures and data loss.

Fix this by checking ->age_set in the IGNORE_DIRECTORY_PATH logic.
---
 src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c b/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
index 79fd0b7..c8d4abb 100644
--- a/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
+++ b/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ static int read_config_file(const char *fn, bool ignore_enoent) {
                                 candidate_item = j;
                 }
 
-                if (candidate_item) {
+                if (candidate_item && candidate_item->age_set) {
                         i->age = candidate_item->age;
                         i->age_set = true;
                 }
-- 
2.0.1



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