Merge pull request #4560 from onny/nolinkcheck

Remove /etc/hosts is_link check

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/firejail/fs_hostname.c b/src/firejail/fs_hostname.c
index 1a9a78ceb..7d320e90b 100644
--- a/src/firejail/fs_hostname.c
+++ b/src/firejail/fs_hostname.c
@@ -93,10 +93,6 @@ char *fs_check_hosts_file(const char *fname) {
         invalid_filename(fname, 0); // no globbing
         char *rv = expand_macros(fname);
 
-        // no a link
-        if (is_link(rv))
-                goto errexit;
-
         // the user has read access to the file
         if (access(rv, R_OK))
                 goto errexit;
@@ -119,9 +115,6 @@ void fs_mount_hosts_file(void) {
         struct stat s;
         if (stat("/etc/hosts", &s) == -1)
                 goto errexit;
-        // not a link
-        if (is_link("/etc/hosts"))
-                goto errexit;
         // owned by root
         if (s.st_uid != 0)
                 goto errexit;