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Authored by brooks on Jan 12 2023, 12:11 AM.
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If a type=dir entry exists and all contents are directories, files
added with contents=, or symlinks with link= attributes then it doesn't
need to exist. Just let openat fail in that case. It's concivable
this will make debugging some cases weird, but it's sufficent to handle
the way we add /root/.ssh in CheriBSD VM images.

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To trigger the problem, a test case might do something like

./root/.ssh type=dir
./root/.ssh/id_ed25519 type=file contents=/path/to/key

where ./root/.ssh doesn't exist?

usr.sbin/makefs/zfs/fs.c
304

Just return (openat(fd, path, flags));

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 12 2023, 2:30 AM
  • Simplify fs_open_can_fail
This revision now requires review to proceed.Jan 12 2023, 5:48 PM

To trigger the problem, a test case might do something like

./root/.ssh type=dir
./root/.ssh/id_ed25519 type=file contents=/path/to/key

where ./root/.ssh doesn't exist?

Yeah, that's the basic issue I ran into (in this case it was actually the authorized_keys file).

This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Jan 12 2023, 6:21 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.