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-rw-r--r--posix/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--posix/execvp.c10
-rw-r--r--posix/tst-execvp4.c35
3 files changed, 40 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/posix/Makefile b/posix/Makefile
index d309b3b2de..39b078c7fd 100644
--- a/posix/Makefile
+++ b/posix/Makefile
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ tests		:= tstgetopt testfnm runtests runptests	     \
 		   tst-execvp1 tst-execvp2 tst-execlp1 tst-execlp2 \
 		   tst-execv1 tst-execv2 tst-execl1 tst-execl2 \
 		   tst-execve1 tst-execve2 tst-execle1 tst-execle2 \
-		   tst-execvp3
+		   tst-execvp3 tst-execvp4
 xtests		:= bug-ga2
 ifeq (yes,$(build-shared))
 test-srcs	:= globtest
diff --git a/posix/execvp.c b/posix/execvp.c
index 6f4e4b8566..8421bd048f 100644
--- a/posix/execvp.c
+++ b/posix/execvp.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ execvp (file, argv)
   else
     {
       char *path = getenv ("PATH");
-      bool path_malloc = false;
+      char *path_malloc = NULL;
       if (path == NULL)
 	{
 	  /* There is no `PATH' in the environment.
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ execvp (file, argv)
 	    return -1;
 	  path[0] = ':';
 	  (void) confstr (_CS_PATH, path + 1, len);
-	  path_malloc = true;
+	  path_malloc = path;
 	}
 
       size_t len = strlen (file) + 1;
@@ -108,8 +108,7 @@ execvp (file, argv)
       char *name = malloc (pathlen + len + 1);
       if (name == NULL)
 	{
-	  if (path_malloc)
-	    free (path);
+	  free (path_malloc);
 	  return -1;
 	}
       /* Copy the file name at the top.  */
@@ -190,8 +189,7 @@ execvp (file, argv)
 
       free (script_argv);
       free (name - pathlen);
-      if (path_malloc)
-	free (path);
+      free (path_malloc);
     }
 
   /* Return the error from the last attempt (probably ENOENT).  */
diff --git a/posix/tst-execvp4.c b/posix/tst-execvp4.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..531fab227b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/posix/tst-execvp4.c
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+static int
+do_test (void)
+{
+  char buf[40] = "/usr/bin/does-not-exist";
+  size_t stemlen = strlen (buf);
+  struct stat64 st;
+  int cnt = 0;
+  while (stat64 (buf, &st) != -1 || errno != ENOENT
+	 || stat64 (buf + 4, &st) != -1 || errno != ENOENT)
+    {
+      if (cnt++ == 100)
+	{
+	  puts ("cannot find a unique file name");
+	  return 0;
+	}
+
+      strcpy (buf + stemlen, ".XXXXXX");
+      mktemp (buf);
+    }
+
+  unsetenv ("PATH");
+  char *argv[] = { buf + 9, NULL };
+  execvp (argv[0], argv);
+  return 0;
+}
+
+#define TEST_FUNCTION do_test ()
+#include "../test-skeleton.c"