From b6cceaae300467af6946534cf745bb549da1050f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 20:13:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fs-util: suppress world-writable warnings if we read
 /dev/null

Fixes: #12165
---
 src/basic/fs-util.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/basic/fs-util.c b/src/basic/fs-util.c
index ce1f5454c83..9f3fd456911 100644
--- a/src/basic/fs-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/fs-util.c
@@ -353,6 +353,10 @@ int fd_warn_permissions(const char *path, int fd) {
         if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0)
                 return -errno;
 
+        /* Don't complain if we are reading something that is not a file, for example /dev/null */
+        if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
+                return 0;
+
         if (st.st_mode & 0111)
                 log_warning("Configuration file %s is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway.", path);
 
-- 
2.39.2