don't change owner/perms/times through file:// symlinks

If we have files in partial/ from a previous invocation or similar such
those could be symlinks created by file:// sources. The code is
expecting only real files through and happily changes owner,
modification times and permission on the file the symlink points to
which tend to be files we have no business in touching in this way.
Permissions of symlinks shouldn't be changed, changing owner is usually
pointless to, but just to be sure we pick the easy way out and use
lchown, check for symlinks before chmod/utimes.

Reported-By: Mattia Rizzolo on IRC

3 files changed, 35 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/methods/aptmethod.h b/methods/aptmethod.h
index bef61a8bc..d3c948636 100644
--- a/methods/aptmethod.h
+++ b/methods/aptmethod.h
@@ -3,10 +3,18 @@
 
 #include <apt-pkg/acquire-method.h>
 #include <apt-pkg/configuration.h>
+#include <apt-pkg/error.h>
 
 #include <locale>
 #include <string>
 
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include <apti18n.h>
+
 class aptMethod : public pkgAcqMethod
 {
    char const * const Binary;
@@ -43,6 +51,29 @@ public:
       va_end(args);
    }
 
+   bool TransferModificationTimes(char const * const From, char const * const To, time_t &LastModified)
+   {
+      if (strcmp(To, "/dev/null") == 0)
+	 return true;
+
+      struct stat Buf2;
+      if (lstat(To, &Buf2) != 0 || S_ISLNK(Buf2.st_mode))
+	 return true;
+
+      struct stat Buf;
+      if (stat(From, &Buf) != 0)
+	 return _error->Errno("stat",_("Failed to stat"));
+
+      // we don't use utimensat here for compatibility reasons: #738567
+      struct timeval times[2];
+      times[0].tv_sec = Buf.st_atime;
+      LastModified = times[1].tv_sec = Buf.st_mtime;
+      times[0].tv_usec = times[1].tv_usec = 0;
+      if (utimes(To, times) != 0)
+	 return _error->Errno("utimes",_("Failed to set modification time"));
+      return true;
+   }
+
    aptMethod(char const * const Binary, char const * const Ver, unsigned long const Flags) :
       pkgAcqMethod(Ver, Flags), Binary(Binary)
    {
diff --git a/methods/copy.cc b/methods/copy.cc
index 5e3654389..810fc2f38 100644
--- a/methods/copy.cc
+++ b/methods/copy.cc
@@ -78,13 +78,8 @@ bool CopyMethod::Fetch(FetchItem *Itm)
    From.Close();
    To.Close();
 
-   // Transfer the modification times
-   struct timeval times[2];
-   times[0].tv_sec = Buf.st_atime;
-   times[1].tv_sec = Buf.st_mtime;
-   times[0].tv_usec = times[1].tv_usec = 0;
-   if (utimes(Res.Filename.c_str(), times) != 0)
-      return _error->Errno("utimes",_("Failed to set modification time"));
+   if (TransferModificationTimes(File.c_str(), Res.Filename.c_str(), Res.LastModified) == false)
+      return false;
 
    CalculateHashes(Itm, Res);
    URIDone(Res);
diff --git a/methods/store.cc b/methods/store.cc
index 934e1a188..fa02d4597 100644
--- a/methods/store.cc
+++ b/methods/store.cc
@@ -126,20 +126,8 @@ bool StoreMethod::Fetch(FetchItem *Itm)					/*{{{*/
    if (Failed == true)
       return false;
 
-   // Transfer the modification times
-   if (Itm->DestFile != "/dev/null")
-   {
-      struct stat Buf;
-      if (stat(Path.c_str(),&Buf) != 0)
-	 return _error->Errno("stat",_("Failed to stat"));
-
-      struct timeval times[2];
-      times[0].tv_sec = Buf.st_atime;
-      Res.LastModified = times[1].tv_sec = Buf.st_mtime;
-      times[0].tv_usec = times[1].tv_usec = 0;
-      if (utimes(Itm->DestFile.c_str(), times) != 0)
-	 return _error->Errno("utimes",_("Failed to set modification time"));
-   }
+   if (TransferModificationTimes(Path.c_str(), Itm->DestFile.c_str(), Res.LastModified) == false)
+      return false;
 
    // Return a Done response
    Res.TakeHashes(Hash);