commit dce4683cbbe107a95f1f0d45fabc304acfb5d71a
Author: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@gnu.org>
Date:   Mon Jul 15 16:21:48 2019 +0200

    Don't follow symlinks unless --follow-symlinks is given
    
    * src/inp.c (plan_a, plan_b), src/util.c (copy_to_fd, copy_file,
    append_to_file): Unless the --follow-symlinks option is given, open files with
    the O_NOFOLLOW flag to avoid following symlinks.  So far, we were only doing
    that consistently for input files.
    * src/util.c (create_backup): When creating empty backup files, (re)create them
    with O_CREAT | O_EXCL to avoid following symlinks in that case as well.

diff --git a/src/inp.c b/src/inp.c
index 32d0919..22d7473 100644
--- a/src/inp.c
+++ b/src/inp.c
@@ -238,8 +238,13 @@ plan_a (char const *filename)
     {
       if (S_ISREG (instat.st_mode))
         {
-	  int ifd = safe_open (filename, O_RDONLY|binary_transput, 0);
+	  int flags = O_RDONLY | binary_transput;
 	  size_t buffered = 0, n;
+	  int ifd;
+
+	  if (! follow_symlinks)
+	    flags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
+	  ifd = safe_open (filename, flags, 0);
 	  if (ifd < 0)
 	    pfatal ("can't open file %s", quotearg (filename));
 
@@ -340,6 +345,7 @@ plan_a (char const *filename)
 static void
 plan_b (char const *filename)
 {
+  int flags = O_RDONLY | binary_transput;
   int ifd;
   FILE *ifp;
   int c;
@@ -353,7 +359,9 @@ plan_b (char const *filename)
 
   if (instat.st_size == 0)
     filename = NULL_DEVICE;
-  if ((ifd = safe_open (filename, O_RDONLY | binary_transput, 0)) < 0
+  if (! follow_symlinks)
+    flags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
+  if ((ifd = safe_open (filename, flags, 0)) < 0
       || ! (ifp = fdopen (ifd, binary_transput ? "rb" : "r")))
     pfatal ("Can't open file %s", quotearg (filename));
   if (TMPINNAME_needs_removal)
diff --git a/src/util.c b/src/util.c
index 1cc08ba..fb38307 100644
--- a/src/util.c
+++ b/src/util.c
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ create_backup (char const *to, const struct stat *to_st, bool leave_original)
 
 	  try_makedirs_errno = ENOENT;
 	  safe_unlink (bakname);
-	  while ((fd = safe_open (bakname, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0666)) < 0)
+	  while ((fd = safe_open (bakname, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0666)) < 0)
 	    {
 	      if (errno != try_makedirs_errno)
 		pfatal ("Can't create file %s", quotearg (bakname));
@@ -579,10 +579,13 @@ create_file (char const *file, int open_flags, mode_t mode,
 static void
 copy_to_fd (const char *from, int tofd)
 {
+  int from_flags = O_RDONLY | O_BINARY;
   int fromfd;
   ssize_t i;
 
-  if ((fromfd = safe_open (from, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY, 0)) < 0)
+  if (! follow_symlinks)
+    from_flags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
+  if ((fromfd = safe_open (from, from_flags, 0)) < 0)
     pfatal ("Can't reopen file %s", quotearg (from));
   while ((i = read (fromfd, buf, bufsize)) != 0)
     {
@@ -625,6 +628,8 @@ copy_file (char const *from, char const *to, struct stat *tost,
   else
     {
       assert (S_ISREG (mode));
+      if (! follow_symlinks)
+	to_flags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
       tofd = create_file (to, O_WRONLY | O_BINARY | to_flags, mode,
 			  to_dir_known_to_exist);
       copy_to_fd (from, tofd);
@@ -640,9 +645,12 @@ copy_file (char const *from, char const *to, struct stat *tost,
 void
 append_to_file (char const *from, char const *to)
 {
+  int to_flags = O_WRONLY | O_APPEND | O_BINARY;
   int tofd;
 
-  if ((tofd = safe_open (to, O_WRONLY | O_BINARY | O_APPEND, 0)) < 0)
+  if (! follow_symlinks)
+    to_flags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
+  if ((tofd = safe_open (to, to_flags, 0)) < 0)
     pfatal ("Can't reopen file %s", quotearg (to));
   copy_to_fd (from, tofd);
   if (close (tofd) != 0)