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[jira] [Reopened] (HDFS-5035) getFileLinkStatus and rename do not correctly check permissions of symlinks

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5035?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andrew Wang reopened HDFS-5035:
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Re-opening to backport to branch-2.2.

> getFileLinkStatus and rename do not correctly check permissions of symlinks
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-5035
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5035
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: namenode
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.1.0-beta
>            Reporter: Andrew Wang
>            Assignee: Andrew Wang
>             Fix For: 2.3.0
>
>         Attachments: hdfs-5035-1.patch, hdfs-5035-2.patch
>
>
> Operations like getFileLinkStatus and rename operate on symlinks, not symlink targets. However, permission checks right now are being done on the symlink target, resulting in wonky behavior.
> This is similar to HDFS-4765, which fixed the same problem for delete.



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