serenity/Kernel/Syscalls/readlink.cpp

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2018-2020, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
 */

#include <AK/StringView.h>
#include <Kernel/FileSystem/VirtualFileSystem.h>
#include <Kernel/Process.h>

namespace Kernel {

KResultOr<FlatPtr> Process::sys$readlink(Userspace<const Syscall::SC_readlink_params*> user_params)
{
    VERIFY_PROCESS_BIG_LOCK_ACQUIRED(this)
    REQUIRE_PROMISE(rpath);
    auto params = TRY(copy_typed_from_user(user_params));

    auto path = get_syscall_path_argument(params.path);
    if (path.is_error())
        return path.error();

    auto result = VirtualFileSystem::the().open(path.value()->view(), O_RDONLY | O_NOFOLLOW_NOERROR, 0, current_directory());
    if (result.is_error())
        return result.error();
    auto description = result.value();

    if (!description->metadata().is_symlink())
        return EINVAL;

    auto contents = description->read_entire_file();
    if (contents.is_error())
        return contents.error();

    auto& link_target = *contents.value();
    auto size_to_copy = min(link_target.size(), params.buffer.size);
    TRY(copy_to_user(params.buffer.data, link_target.data(), size_to_copy));
    // Note: we return the whole size here, not the copied size.
    return link_target.size();
}

}