Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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I linked a file as root, so I had a symlink /root/test.service ← /etc/systemd/system/test.service.
To my surpise, when running test-systemctl-enable, it failed with a cryptic EACCES.
The previous commit made the logs a bit better. Strace shows that we
were trying to follow the symlink without taking --root into account.
It seems that this bug was introduced in 66a19d85a5:
before it, we'd do readlink_malloc(), which returned a path relative to root. But
we only used that path for checking if the path is in remove_symlinks_to set, which
contains relative paths. So if the path was relative, we'd get a false-negative
answer, but we didn't go outside of the root. (We need to canonicalize the symlink
to get a consistent answer.) But after 66a19 we use chase_symlinks(), without taking
root into account which is completely bogus.
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