// Copyright 2012 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE.BSD file. // This code is a modified version of path/filepath/symlink.go from the Go standard library. package symlink import ( "bytes" "errors" "os" "path/filepath" "strings" "github.com/docker/docker/pkg/system" ) // FollowSymlinkInScope is a wrapper around evalSymlinksInScope that returns an // absolute path. This function handles paths in a platform-agnostic manner. func FollowSymlinkInScope(path, root string) (string, error) { path, err := filepath.Abs(filepath.FromSlash(path)) if err != nil { return "", err } root, err = filepath.Abs(filepath.FromSlash(root)) if err != nil { return "", err } return evalSymlinksInScope(path, root) } // evalSymlinksInScope will evaluate symlinks in `path` within a scope `root` and return // a result guaranteed to be contained within the scope `root`, at the time of the call. // Symlinks in `root` are not evaluated and left as-is. // Errors encountered while attempting to evaluate symlinks in path will be returned. // Non-existing paths are valid and do not constitute an error. // `path` has to contain `root` as a prefix, or else an error will be returned. // Trying to break out from `root` does not constitute an error. // // Example: // If /foo/bar -> /outside, // FollowSymlinkInScope("/foo/bar", "/foo") == "/foo/outside" instead of "/oustide" // // IMPORTANT: it is the caller's responsibility to call evalSymlinksInScope *after* relevant symlinks // are created and not to create subsequently, additional symlinks that could potentially make a // previously-safe path, unsafe. Example: if /foo/bar does not exist, evalSymlinksInScope("/foo/bar", "/foo") // would return "/foo/bar". If one makes /foo/bar a symlink to /baz subsequently, then "/foo/bar" should // no longer be considered safely contained in "/foo". func evalSymlinksInScope(path, root string) (string, error) { root = filepath.Clean(root) if path == root { return path, nil } if !strings.HasPrefix(path, root) { return "", errors.New("evalSymlinksInScope: " + path + " is not in " + root) } const maxIter = 255 originalPath := path // given root of "/a" and path of "/a/b/../../c" we want path to be "/b/../../c" path = path[len(root):] if root == string(filepath.Separator) { path = string(filepath.Separator) + path } if !strings.HasPrefix(path, string(filepath.Separator)) { return "", errors.New("evalSymlinksInScope: " + path + " is not in " + root) } path = filepath.Clean(path) // consume path by taking each frontmost path element, // expanding it if it's a symlink, and appending it to b var b bytes.Buffer // b here will always be considered to be the "current absolute path inside // root" when we append paths to it, we also append a slash and use // filepath.Clean after the loop to trim the trailing slash for n := 0; path != ""; n++ { if n > maxIter { return "", errors.New("evalSymlinksInScope: too many links in " + originalPath) } // find next path component, p i := strings.IndexRune(path, filepath.Separator) var p string if i == -1 { p, path = path, "" } else { p, path = path[:i], path[i+1:] } if p == "" { continue } // this takes a b.String() like "b/../" and a p like "c" and turns it // into "/b/../c" which then gets filepath.Cleaned into "/c" and then // root gets prepended and we Clean again (to remove any trailing slash // if the first Clean gave us just "/") cleanP := filepath.Clean(string(filepath.Separator) + b.String() + p) if cleanP == string(filepath.Separator) { // never Lstat "/" itself b.Reset() continue } fullP := filepath.Clean(root + cleanP) fi, err := os.Lstat(fullP) if os.IsNotExist(err) { // if p does not exist, accept it b.WriteString(p) b.WriteRune(filepath.Separator) continue } if err != nil { return "", err } if fi.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink == 0 { b.WriteString(p + string(filepath.Separator)) continue } // it's a symlink, put it at the front of path dest, err := os.Readlink(fullP) if err != nil { return "", err } if system.IsAbs(dest) { b.Reset() } path = dest + string(filepath.Separator) + path } // see note above on "fullP := ..." for why this is double-cleaned and // what's happening here return filepath.Clean(root + filepath.Clean(string(filepath.Separator)+b.String())), nil }