storage/posix: prevent chmod() from getting called on symlinksv3.0.7qa1

Signed-off-by: Vijay Bellur <vijay@gluster.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand V. Avati <avati@dev.gluster.com>

BUG: 881 (GlusterFS daemon hangs on replication of symlink (3.0.4))
URL: http://bugs.gluster.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=881

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix.c b/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix.c
index 1d3b179f61e..0000973c234 100644
--- a/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix.c
+++ b/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <libgen.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <ftw.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 
 #ifndef GF_BSD_HOST_OS
 #include <alloca.h>
@@ -575,13 +576,33 @@ posix_do_chmod (xlator_t *this,
                 const char *path,
                 struct stat *stbuf)
 {
-        int32_t ret = -1;
+        int32_t         ret = -1;
+        struct  stat    stat;
+        int             is_symlink = 0;
+
+        ret = sys_lstat (path, &stat);
+        if (ret != 0) {
+                gf_log (this->name, GF_LOG_WARNING,
+                        "%s (%s)", path, strerror (errno));
+                goto out;
+        }
+
+        if (S_ISLNK (stat.st_mode))
+                is_symlink = 1;
 
         ret = lchmod (path, stbuf->st_mode);
         if ((ret == -1) && (errno == ENOSYS)) {
+                /* in Linux symlinks are always in mode 0777 and no
+                   such call as lchmod exists.
+                */
+                if (is_symlink) {
+                        ret = 0;
+                        goto out;
+                }
                 ret = chmod (path, stbuf->st_mode);
         }
 
+out:
         return ret;
 }