commit e461251e2caa5561cf6a315bffaebfd4eb896b1d
author Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Tue Sep 10 15:34:19 2013 -0700
committer Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com> Tue Sep 10 15:34:19 2013 -0700
tree a854f6d9fe24b0ebca253df94c1dbcd31b3c6779
parent 5dbdef0e5b8a841fadc64d016d10ce81a962b284

Don't apply permission changes to symlink.

Bug: 10183961
Bug: 10186213
Bug: 8985290
Change-Id: I57cb14af59682c5f25f1e091564548bdbf20f74e

updater/install.c

diff --git a/updater/install.c b/updater/install.c
index 770dbd0..0a85945 100644
--- a/updater/install.c
+++ b/updater/install.c
@@ -726,6 +726,11 @@
 {
     int bad = 0;
 
+    /* ignore symlinks */
+    if (S_ISLNK(statptr->st_mode)) {
+        return 0;
+    }
+
     if (parsed.has_uid) {
         if (chown(filename, parsed.uid, -1) < 0) {
             printf("ApplyParsedPerms: chown of %s to %d failed: %s\n",