summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py')
-rw-r--r--bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
index 670e592fe0..2562db8e47 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
@@ -575,11 +575,30 @@ def build_environment(d):
if export:
os.environ[var] = d.getVar(var, True) or ""
+def _check_unsafe_delete_path(path):
+ """
+ Basic safeguard against recursively deleting something we shouldn't. If it returns True,
+ the caller should raise an exception with an appropriate message.
+ NOTE: This is NOT meant to be a security mechanism - just a guard against silly mistakes
+ with potentially disastrous results.
+ """
+ extra = ''
+ # HOME might not be /home/something, so in case we can get it, check against it
+ homedir = os.environ.get('HOME', '')
+ if homedir:
+ extra = '|%s' % homedir
+ if re.match('(/|//|/home|/home/[^/]*%s)$' % extra, os.path.abspath(path)):
+ return True
+ return False
+
def remove(path, recurse=False):
"""Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf"""
if not path:
return
if recurse:
+ for name in glob.glob(path):
+ if _check_unsafe_delete_path(path):
+ raise Exception('bb.utils.remove: called with dangerous path "%s" and recurse=True, refusing to delete!' % path)
# shutil.rmtree(name) would be ideal but its too slow
subprocess.call(['rm', '-rf'] + glob.glob(path))
return
@@ -593,6 +612,8 @@ def remove(path, recurse=False):
def prunedir(topdir):
# Delete everything reachable from the directory named in 'topdir'.
# CAUTION: This is dangerous!
+ if _check_unsafe_delete_path(topdir):
+ raise Exception('bb.utils.prunedir: called with dangerous path "%s", refusing to delete!' % topdir)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(topdir, topdown = False):
for name in files:
os.remove(os.path.join(root, name))