On 25/10/2026 05:26, Collin Funk wrote:
I don't have access to a machine with coreutils-5.3.0, but it appears
this was introduced in commit e4ccef8ddc672f9e5ee4963db550f97c1ae2edc8
[1]. That commit changed an early return, before the FILE_STATS was
used, into an error flag.
[1]
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/e4ccef8ddc672f9e5ee4963db550f97c1ae2edc8
-- 8< --
* src/chown-core.c (change_file_owner): Set the pointer to NULL if
fstatat fails.
* tests/chgrp/verbose-dangling-symlink.sh: New file.
* tests/chown/verbose-dangling-symlink.sh: New file.
* tests/local.mk (all_tests): Add the new tests.
* NEWS: Mention the bug fix.
Discovered by Anthropic's OSS Scanner, as bug ANT-2026-YYGC42VE.
Thanks for tracking down when it was introduced.
LGTM
cheers,
Padraig
