ignore: treat symbolic links to directories as directories

Due to how walkdir works if symlinks are not followed, symlinks to
directories are seen as simple files by ripgrep. This caused a panic
in some cases due to receiving a WalkEvent::Exit event without a
corresponding WalkEvent::Dir event.

This is fixed by looking at the metadata of the file in the case of a
symlink to determine if it's a directory. We are careful to only do
this stat check when the depth of the entry is 0, as this bug only
impacts us when 1) we aren't following symlinks generally and 2) the
user provides a symlinked directory that we do follow as a top-level
path to search.

Fixes #1389, Closes #1397

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ Bug fixes:
   This was a serious performance regression in some cases.
 * [BUG #1344](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1344):
   Document usage of `--type all`.
+* [BUG #1389](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1389):
+  Fixes a bug where ripgrep would panic when searching a symlinked directory.
 * [BUG #1445](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1445):
   ripgrep now respects ignore rules from .git/info/exclude in worktrees.
 * [BUG #1485](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1485):

ignore/src/walk.rs

@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ impl Iterator for WalkEventIter {
             None => None,
             Some(Err(err)) => Some(Err(err)),
             Some(Ok(dent)) => {
-                if dent.file_type().is_dir() {
+                if walkdir_is_dir(&dent) {
                     self.depth += 1;
                     Some(Ok(WalkEvent::Dir(dent)))
                 } else {
@@ -1791,6 +1791,24 @@ fn path_equals(dent: &DirEntry, handle: &Handle) -> Result<bool, Error> {
         .map_err(|err| Error::Io(err).with_path(dent.path()))
 }
 
+/// Returns true if the given walkdir entry corresponds to a directory.
+///
+/// This is normally just `dent.file_type().is_dir()`, but when we aren't
+/// following symlinks, the root directory entry may be a symlink to a
+/// directory that we *do* follow---by virtue of it being specified by the user
+/// explicitly. In that case, we need to follow the symlink and query whether
+/// it's a directory or not. But we only do this for root entries to avoid an
+/// additional stat check in most cases.
+fn walkdir_is_dir(dent: &walkdir::DirEntry) -> bool {
+    if dent.file_type().is_dir() {
+        return true;
+    }
+    if !dent.file_type().is_symlink() || dent.depth() > 0 {
+        return false;
+    }
+    dent.path().metadata().ok().map_or(false, |md| md.file_type().is_dir())
+}
+
 /// Returns true if and only if the given path is on the same device as the
 /// given root device.
 fn is_same_file_system(root_device: u64, path: &Path) -> Result<bool, Error> {

tests/regression.rs

@@ -747,6 +747,21 @@ rgtest!(r1334_crazy_literals, |dir: Dir, mut cmd: TestCommand| {
     );
 });
 
+// See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1389
+rgtest!(r1389_bad_symlinks_no_biscuit, |dir: Dir, mut cmd: TestCommand| {
+    dir.create_dir("mydir");
+    dir.create("mydir/file.txt", "test");
+    dir.link_dir("mydir", "mylink");
+
+    let stdout = cmd.args(&[
+        "test",
+        "--no-ignore",
+        "--sort", "path",
+        "mylink",
+    ]).stdout();
+    eqnice!("mylink/file.txt:test\n", stdout);
+});
+
 // See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/1446
 rgtest!(r1446_respect_excludes_in_worktree, |dir: Dir, mut cmd: TestCommand| {
     dir.create_dir("repo/.git/info");