[LTP] [PATCH v4] tst_tmpdir: Fix buffer overflow in tst_tmpdir.c

[Andrea Cervesato]

Hi!

On Thu Feb 26, 2026 at 9:59 AM CET, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> > diff --git a/lib/tst_tmpdir.c b/lib/tst_tmpdir.c
> > index 9b024a74e..0c06a306c 100644
> > --- a/lib/tst_tmpdir.c
> > +++ b/lib/tst_tmpdir.c
> > @@ -186,8 +186,10 @@ static int purge_dirat(int dir_fd, const char *path, char **errptr)
> >                         continue;
> >  
> >                 /* Recursively remove the current entry */
> > -               if (rmobjat(subdir_fd, dir_ent->d_name, errptr) != 0)
> > +               if (rmobjat(subdir_fd, dir_ent->d_name, errptr) != 0) {
> > +                       close(subdir_fd);  <<<<<<<<<< first close
> >                         ret_val = -1;
> > +               }
> >         }
> >         
> >         closedir(dir);  <<<<<<<<<<<<< second close
>
> Ah, right, we hand the fd to the fdopendir() and it's closed in the
> closedir() call. I've missed that since the closedir() is not shown in
> the diff since that part of the code wasn't modified and haven't shown
> up in the diff.
>
> The patch looks good to me then.

Feel free to ack and merge :-)

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Andrea Cervesato
SUSE QE Automation Engineer Linux
andrea.cervesato@suse.com