This fixes the remaining filesystem::remove_all race condition by using
POSIX openat to recurse into sub-directories and using POSIX unlinkat to
remove files. This avoids the remaining race where the directory being
removed is replaced with a symlink after the directory has been opened,
so that the filesystem::remove("subdir/file") resolves to "target/file"
instead, because "subdir" has been removed and replaced with a symlink.
The previous patch only fixed the case where the directory was replaced
with a symlink before we tried to open it, but it still used the full
(potentially compromised) path as an argument to filesystem::remove.
The first part of the fix is to use openat when recursing into a
sub-directory with recursive_directory_iterator. This means that opening
"dir/subdir" uses the file descriptor for "dir", and so is sure to open
"dir/subdir" and not "symlink/subdir". (The previous patch to use
O_NOFOLLOW already ensured we won't open "dir/symlink/" here.)
The second part of the fix is to use unlinkat for the remove_all
operation. Previously we used a directory_iterator to get the name of
each file in a directory and then used filesystem::remove(iter->path())
on that name. This meant that any checks (e.g. O_NOFOLLOW) done by the
iterator could be invalidated before the remove operation on that
pathname. The directory iterator contains an open DIR stream, which we
can use to obtain a file descriptor to pass to unlinkat. This ensures
that the file being deleted really is contained within the directory
we're iterating over, rather than using a pathname that could resolve to
some other file.
The filesystem::remove_all function previously used a (non-recursive)
filesystem::directory_iterator for each directory, and called itself
recursively for sub-directories. The new implementation uses a single
filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator object, and calls a new __erase
member function on that iterator. That new __erase member function does
the actual work of removing a file (or a directory after its contents
have been iterated over and removed) using unlinkat. That means we don't
need to expose the DIR stream or its file descriptor to the remove_all
function, it's still encapuslated by the iterator class.
It would be possible to add a __rewind member to directory iterators
too, to call rewinddir after each modification to the directory. That
would make it more likely for filesystem::remove_all to successfully
remove everything even if files are being written to the directory tree
while removing it. It's unclear if that is actually prefereable, or if
it's better to fail and report an error at the first opportunity.
The necessary APIs (openat, unlinkat, fdopendir, dirfd) are defined in
POSIX.1-2008, and in Glibc since 2.10. But if the target doesn't provide
them, the original code (with race conditions) is still used.
This also reduces the number of small memory allocations needed for
std::filesystem::remove_all, because we do not store the full path to
every directory entry that is iterated over. The new filename_only
option means we only store the filename in the directory entry, as that
is all we need in order to use openat or unlinkat.
Finally, rather than duplicating everything for the Filesystem TS, the
std::experimental::filesystem::remove_all implementation now just calls
std::filesystem::remove_all to do the work.
libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:
PR libstdc++/104161
* acinclude.m4 (GLIBCXX_CHECK_FILESYSTEM_DEPS): Check for dirfd
and unlinkat.
* config.h.in: Regenerate.
* configure: Regenerate.
* include/bits/fs_dir.h (recursive_directory_iterator): Declare
remove_all overloads as friends.
(recursive_directory_iterator::__erase): Declare new member
function.
* include/bits/fs_fwd.h (remove, remove_all): Declare.
* src/c++17/fs_dir.cc (_Dir): Add filename_only parameter to
constructor. Pass file descriptor argument to base constructor.
(_Dir::dir_and_pathname, _Dir::open_subdir, _Dir::do_unlink)
(_Dir::unlink, _Dir::rmdir): Define new member functions.
(directory_iterator): Pass filename_only argument to _Dir
constructor.
(recursive_directory_iterator::_Dir_stack): Adjust constructor
parameters to take a _Dir rvalue instead of creating one.
(_Dir_stack::orig): Add data member for storing original path.
(_Dir_stack::report_error): Define new member function.
(__directory_iterator_nofollow): Move here from dir-common.h and
fix value to be a power of two.
(__directory_iterator_filename_only): Define new constant.
(recursive_directory_iterator): Construct _Dir object and move
into _M_dirs stack. Pass skip_permission_denied argument to first
advance call.
(recursive_directory_iterator::increment): Use _Dir::open_subdir.
(recursive_directory_iterator::__erase): Define new member
function.
* src/c++17/fs_ops.cc (ErrorReporter, do_remove_all): Remove.
(fs::remove_all): Use new recursive_directory_iterator::__erase
member function.
* src/filesystem/dir-common.h (_Dir_base): Add int parameter to
constructor and use openat to implement nofollow semantics.
(_Dir_base::fdcwd, _Dir_base::set_close_on_exec, _Dir_base::openat):
Define new member functions.
(__directory_iterator_nofollow): Move to fs_dir.cc.
* src/filesystem/dir.cc (_Dir): Pass file descriptor argument to
base constructor.
(_Dir::dir_and_pathname, _Dir::open_subdir): Define new member
functions.
(recursive_directory_iterator::_Dir_stack): Adjust constructor
parameters to take a _Dir rvalue instead of creating one.
(recursive_directory_iterator): Check for new nofollow option.
Construct _Dir object and move into _M_dirs stack. Pass
skip_permission_denied argument to first advance call.
(recursive_directory_iterator::increment): Use _Dir::open_subdir.
* src/filesystem/ops.cc (fs::remove_all): Use C++17 remove_all.
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