Merge #11376: Ensure backupwallet fails when attempting to backup to source file

5d465e396 Ensure backupwallet fails when attempting to backup to source file (Tomas van der Wansem)

Pull request description:

  Previous behaviour was to destroy the wallet (to zero-length)

  This fixes #11375

Tree-SHA512: bfd1738659b15e3f23b6bbdf55ec12269c62c820bf701daec19500b52bd5845bb5516733c6f76f36197eb155182a8a35dc239ad4de2ef1e59bbb0f124a455759

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/wallet/db.cpp b/src/wallet/db.cpp
index 459d289a42..5d48b01c2e 100644
--- a/src/wallet/db.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/db.cpp
@@ -705,6 +705,11 @@ bool CWalletDBWrapper::Backup(const std::string& strDest)
                     pathDest /= strFile;
 
                 try {
+                    if (fs::equivalent(pathSrc, pathDest)) {
+                        LogPrintf("cannot backup to wallet source file %s\n", pathDest.string());
+                        return false;
+                    }
+
                     fs::copy_file(pathSrc, pathDest, fs::copy_option::overwrite_if_exists);
                     LogPrintf("copied %s to %s\n", strFile, pathDest.string());
                     return true;
diff --git a/test/functional/walletbackup.py b/test/functional/walletbackup.py
index 15ea26afa1..85a149793e 100755
--- a/test/functional/walletbackup.py
+++ b/test/functional/walletbackup.py
@@ -190,6 +190,16 @@ class WalletBackupTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
         assert_equal(self.nodes[1].getbalance(), balance1)
         assert_equal(self.nodes[2].getbalance(), balance2)
 
+        # Backup to source wallet file must fail
+        sourcePaths = [
+            tmpdir + "/node0/regtest/wallet.dat",
+            tmpdir + "/node0/./regtest/wallet.dat",
+            tmpdir + "/node0/regtest/",
+            tmpdir + "/node0/regtest"]
+
+        for sourcePath in sourcePaths:
+            assert_raises_rpc_error(-4, "backup failed", self.nodes[0].backupwallet, sourcePath)
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     WalletBackupTest().main()