From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:20:57 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: rm-rf: use faccessat instead of fstatat
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=305393135b90c3650faaa518cdc8a35d9fbf839d;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

rm-rf: use faccessat instead of fstatat

Follow-up for 9dd2dab37e91ab4b000802d98aa7c4713836d53a
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diff --git a/src/shared/rm-rf.c b/src/shared/rm-rf.c
index 56a56ed9ab5..203e075b9a9 100644
--- a/src/shared/rm-rf.c
+++ b/src/shared/rm-rf.c
@@ -444,14 +444,8 @@ int rm_rf_at(int dir_fd, const char *path, RemoveFlags flags) {
         /* We refuse to clean the root file system with this call. This is extra paranoia to never cause a
          * really seriously broken system. */
         r = path_is_root_at(dir_fd, path);
-        if (r == -ENOENT) {
-                struct stat st;
-
-                if (fstatat(dir_fd, path, &st, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) < 0)
-                        r = -errno;
-                else
-                        r = 0; /* The entry exists, but is most likely a dangling symlink. */
-        }
+        if (r == -ENOENT)
+                r = RET_NERRNO(faccessat(dir_fd, path, F_OK, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW));
         if (FLAGS_SET(flags, REMOVE_MISSING_OK) && r == -ENOENT)
                 return 0;
         if (r < 0)