scripts: don't rely on "stat -" support

While commit b72682c602b8 ("scripts: Use stat to check lock claim")
validly indicates that stat has gained support for the special "-"
command line option in 2009, we should still try to avoid breaking being
able to run on even older distros. As it has been determined, contary to
the comment in the script using /dev/stdin (/proc/self/fd/$_lockfd) is
fine here, as Linux specially treats these /proc inodes.

Suggested-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Tested-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Release-acked-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>

diff --git a/tools/hotplug/Linux/locking.sh b/tools/hotplug/Linux/locking.sh
index 69aefae6f6db9a703b94961fb8c793382f72aa8b..2e6fb35f02785c7a2c5a164df417f47659f829bd 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/hotplug/Linux/locking.sh
+++ b/tools/hotplug/Linux/locking.sh
@@ -45,18 +45,14 @@ claim_lock()
     while true; do
         eval "exec $_lockfd<>$_lockfile"
         flock -x $_lockfd || return $?
-        # We can't just stat /dev/stdin or /proc/self/fd/$_lockfd or
-        # use bash's test -ef because those all go through what is
-        # actually a synthetic symlink in /proc and we aren't
-        # guaranteed that our stat(2) won't lose the race with an
-        # rm(1) between reading the synthetic link and traversing the
-        # file system to find the inum.  stat(1) translates '-' into an
-        # fstat(2) of FD 0.  So we just need to arrange the FDs properly
-        # to get the fstat(2) we need.  stat will output two lines like:
+        # Although /dev/stdin (i.e. /proc/self/fd/0) looks like a symlink,
+        # stat(2) bypasses the synthetic symlink and directly accesses the
+        # underlying open-file.  So this works correctly even if the file
+        # has been renamed or unlinked.  stat will output two lines like:
         # WW.XXX
         # YY.ZZZ
         # which need to be separated and compared.
-        if stat=$( stat -L -c '%D.%i' - $_lockfile 0<&$_lockfd 2>/dev/null )
+        if stat=$( stat -L -c '%D.%i' /dev/stdin $_lockfile 0<&$_lockfd 2>/dev/null )
         then
             local file_stat
             local fd_stat