ask-password-api: don't accidentally create a dir, when we don't want one

Previously, we were using touch(), which usually works fine, because the
path should always refer to an existing directory, in which case it just
updates the timestamp. However, if the dir does not exist yet (which
shouldn't happen), it would be created as regular file, which is just
wrong.

Hence, let's instead create the dir as dir if it is missing, and then
update its timestamp.

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/fs-util.c b/src/basic/fs-util.c
index 97f36df8e7..35cebfc849 100644
--- a/src/basic/fs-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/fs-util.c
@@ -371,9 +371,21 @@ int fd_warn_permissions(const char *path, int fd) {
         return stat_warn_permissions(path, &st);
 }
 
+int touch_fd(int fd, usec_t stamp) {
+        assert(fd >= 0);
+
+        if (stamp == USEC_INFINITY)
+                return futimens_opath(fd, /* ts= */ NULL);
+
+        struct timespec ts[2];
+        timespec_store(ts + 0, stamp);
+        ts[1] = ts[0];
+        return futimens_opath(fd, ts);
+}
+
 int touch_file(const char *path, bool parents, usec_t stamp, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, mode_t mode) {
         _cleanup_close_ int fd = -EBADF;
-        int r, ret;
+        int ret;
 
         assert(path);
 
@@ -405,15 +417,7 @@ int touch_file(const char *path, bool parents, usec_t stamp, uid_t uid, gid_t gi
          * something fchown(), fchmod(), futimensat() don't allow. */
         ret = fchmod_and_chown(fd, mode, uid, gid);
 
-        if (stamp != USEC_INFINITY) {
-                struct timespec ts;
-                timespec_store(&ts, stamp);
-
-                r = futimens_opath(fd, (const struct timespec[2]) { ts, ts });
-        } else
-                r = futimens_opath(fd, /* ts = */ NULL);
-
-        return RET_GATHER(ret, r);
+        return RET_GATHER(ret, touch_fd(fd, stamp));
 }
 
 int symlinkat_idempotent(const char *from, int atfd, const char *to, bool make_relative) {
diff --git a/src/basic/fs-util.h b/src/basic/fs-util.h
index 06c95a3b08..93af685eef 100644
--- a/src/basic/fs-util.h
+++ b/src/basic/fs-util.h
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ int stat_warn_permissions(const char *path, const struct stat *st);
 #define access_nofollow(path, mode)                                             \
         RET_NERRNO(faccessat(AT_FDCWD, (path), (mode), AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW))
 
+int touch_fd(int fd, usec_t stamp);
+
 int touch_file(const char *path, bool parents, usec_t stamp, uid_t uid, gid_t gid, mode_t mode);
 
 static inline int touch(const char *path) {
diff --git a/src/shared/ask-password-api.c b/src/shared/ask-password-api.c
index 1c4f357fbe..7b9cdadc54 100644
--- a/src/shared/ask-password-api.c
+++ b/src/shared/ask-password-api.c
@@ -102,7 +102,11 @@ static int touch_ask_password_directory(AskPasswordFlags flags) {
         if (r <= 0)
                 return r;
 
-        r = touch(p);
+        _cleanup_close_ int fd = open_mkdir(p, O_CLOEXEC, 0755);
+        if (fd < 0)
+                return fd;
+
+        r = touch_fd(fd, USEC_INFINITY);
         if (r < 0)
                 return r;