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Bug 1905481

Summary: "rm -rf *" performs an extra skip when it encounters an immutable empty directory
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Radka Brychtova <rskvaril>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.3CC: kdudka, nishant.nayan, rskvaril, sushmita.bhattacharya
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch, Triaged
Target Release: 8.4Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: coreutils-8.30-9.el8 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Clone Of: 1905463 Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-11-09 19:42:17 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Kamil Dudka 2020-12-08 13:13:43 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1905463 +++

The 'rm' utility' is skipping a mutable file when it encounters an immutable empty
directory (while deleting group of files and directories). Version(/8.22-18.0.1)/

Description: The bug is that rm skips an extra file while it encounters
an immutable empty directory. For example, on doing an "rm -rf *" on "a b c foo x y z",
where a,b,c,x,y,z are mutable files and foo is an immutable empty directory, the output was "foo x", as soon as rm encounters an immutable directory, it skips it's immediate next file(x in this case) and deletes all other files. 

Actual results: foo x


Expected results: foo

Refer upstream patch : https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=6bf108358

--- Additional comment from Kamil Dudka on 2020-12-08 14:08:54 CET ---

Thank you for reporting the bug!  However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 does not receive y-stream updates any more.  If the fix is important for your business, please escalate it through product support.

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2020-12-08 13:43:50 UTC
fixed in coreutils-8.32-15.fc34 for now: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/coreutils/c/1a18f20c

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2020-12-09 08:03:02 UTC
*** Bug 1905807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 19:42:17 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (coreutils bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:4418