From: Jeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 17:46:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Delivery: remove restriction on dirname length on having to create directories. ... 
X-Git-Tag: exim-4_91_RC1~138
X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff_plain/424fa2f3aa617d08cce2518aac84bfe1329de6c2

Delivery: remove restriction on dirname length on having to create directories.  Bug 2213
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diff --git a/src/src/directory.c b/src/src/directory.c
index 5c55a4524..64dfac833 100644
--- a/src/src/directory.c
+++ b/src/src/directory.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 *************************************************/
 
 /* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2009 */
+/* Copyright (c) The Exim Maintainers 2017 */
 /* See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. */
 
 #include "exim.h"
@@ -38,59 +39,54 @@ directory_make(const uschar *parent, const uschar *name,
                int mode, BOOL panic)
 {
 BOOL use_chown = parent == spool_directory && geteuid() == root_uid;
-uschar *p;
-const uschar *slash;
-int c = 1;
+uschar * p;
+uschar c = 1;
 struct stat statbuf;
-uschar buffer[256];
+uschar * path;
 
-if (parent == NULL)
+if (parent)
   {
-  p = buffer + 1;
-  slash = parent = CUS"";
+  path = string_sprintf("%s%s%s", parent, US"/", name);
+  p = path + Ustrlen(parent);
   }
 else
   {
-  p = buffer + Ustrlen(parent);
-  slash = US"/";
+  path = string_copy(name);
+  p = path + 1;
   }
 
-if (!string_format(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%s%s%s", parent, slash, name))
-  log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC_DIE, "name too long in directory_make");
+/* Walk the path creating any missing directories */
 
-while (c != 0 && *p != 0)
+while (c && *p)
   {
-  while (*p != 0 && *p != '/') p++;
+  while (*p && *p != '/') p++;
   c = *p;
-  *p = 0;
-  if (Ustat(buffer, &statbuf) != 0)
+  *p = '\0';
+  if (Ustat(path, &statbuf) != 0)
     {
-    if (mkdir(CS buffer, mode) < 0 && errno != EEXIST)
-      {
-      if (!panic) return FALSE;
-      log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC_DIE,
-        "Failed to create directory \"%s\": %s\n", buffer, strerror(errno));
-      }
+    if (mkdir(CS path, mode) < 0 && errno != EEXIST)
+      { p = US"create"; goto bad; }
 
     /* Set the ownership if necessary. */
 
-    if (use_chown && Uchown(buffer, exim_uid, exim_gid))
-      {
-      if (!panic) return FALSE;
-      log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC_DIE,
-        "Failed to set owner on directory \"%s\": %s\n", buffer, strerror(errno));
-      }
+    if (use_chown && Uchown(path, exim_uid, exim_gid))
+      { p = US"set owner on"; goto bad; }
 
     /* It appears that any mode bits greater than 0777 are ignored by
     mkdir(), at least on some operating systems. Therefore, if the mode
     contains any such bits, do an explicit mode setting. */
 
-    if ((mode & 0777000) != 0) (void)Uchmod(buffer, mode);
+    if (mode & 0777000) (void) Uchmod(path, mode);
     }
   *p++ = c;
   }
 
 return TRUE;
+
+bad:
+  if (panic) log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC_DIE,
+    "Failed to %s directory \"%s\": %s\n", p, path, strerror(errno));
+  return FALSE;
 }
 
 /* End of directory.c */