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[pseudo] linkat: Fix AT_EMPTY_PATH handling

Message ID 20260717131943.3386262-1-richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Series [pseudo] linkat: Fix AT_EMPTY_PATH handling | expand

Commit Message

Richard Purdie July 17, 2026, 1:19 p.m. UTC 
Currently we don't cover the case where AT_EMPTY_PATH is set for atlink.
Update the code to handle this case in a similar way to the /proc/self
case which is similar.

This is used by some systemd tools which OE might run at rootfs time
such as hwdb generation.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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 ports/unix/guts/linkat.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/ports/unix/guts/linkat.c b/ports/unix/guts/linkat.c
index 60fbf63..36ffc0f 100644
--- a/ports/unix/guts/linkat.c
+++ b/ports/unix/guts/linkat.c
@@ -35,13 +35,18 @@ 
 	}
 #endif
 	oldpath = oldname;
-	if (pseudo_chroot_len && !strncmp(oldpath, pseudo_chroot, pseudo_chroot_len) &&
+	if (oldpath && !*oldpath && pseudo_chroot_len && !strncmp(oldpath, pseudo_chroot, pseudo_chroot_len) &&
 		oldpath[pseudo_chroot_len] == '/') {
 		oldpath += pseudo_chroot_len;
 	}
 
 	newpath = pseudo_root_path(__func__, __LINE__, newdirfd, newname, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
 
+	if ((!oldpath || !*oldpath) && (flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH)) {
+		tmpfile_fd = olddirfd;
+		// call actual link
+		rc = real_linkat(olddirfd, "", AT_FDCWD, newpath, flags);
+	} else
 	/* weird special case: if you link /proc/self/fd/N, you're supposed
 	 * to get a link to fd N. Used in conjunction with opening a directory
 	 * with O_TMPFILE in flags, which actually opens an already-deleted