On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Flavio Leitner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Due to a CVE bug, the patch was modified to not allow following
> symlinks out of the workdir. However, this causes a bug when
> there is a regular file out of the workdir which breaks the current
> testsuite build.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> ./boot.sh
> mkdir _gcc && cd _gcc
> ../configure
> make
> [...]
> /bin/sh /home/fleitner/ovs/testsuite/build-aux/missing autom4te
> --language=autotest -I '..' -o ../tests/testsuite.tmp
> ../tests/testsuite.at
> patch -p0 ../tests/testsuite.tmp ../tests/testsuite.patch
> Invalid file name ../tests/testsuite.tmp -- skipping patch
> Makefile:5155: recipe for target '../tests/testsuite' failed
> make[2]: *** [../tests/testsuite] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/home/fleitner/NetworkingServices/openvswitch/repo/testsuite/_gcc'
> Makefile:4087: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> Since it's just a temporary file, this patch changes to use the
> workdir as the place to put the file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <[email protected]>
I re-read the commit message again and I understand it now.
Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]>
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