From 0c21023bb2b2522540242fe68d4d5e43d535882b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chaoticgd <43898262+chaoticgd@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 08:11:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Path: Prevent Path::RealPath from returning '.' and '..'
 components

---
 common/FileSystem.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/FileSystem.cpp b/common/FileSystem.cpp
index 46940388b4..a73dab6700 100644
--- a/common/FileSystem.cpp
+++ b/common/FileSystem.cpp
@@ -453,6 +453,11 @@ std::string Path::RealPath(const std::string_view path)
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+	// If any relative symlinks were resolved, there may be '.' and '..'
+	// components in the resultant path, which must be removed.
+	realpath = Path::Canonicalize(realpath);
+
 #endif
 
 	return realpath;