Remove unneeded extra checks for upwards symlinks

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/buildtool/execution_api/common/TARGETS b/src/buildtool/execution_api/common/TARGETS
index b13ac8b5..31a308ad 100644
--- a/src/buildtool/execution_api/common/TARGETS
+++ b/src/buildtool/execution_api/common/TARGETS
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
     [ ["@", "json", "", "json"]
     , ["src/buildtool/logging", "log_level"]
     , ["src/utils/cpp", "hex_string"]
-    , ["src/utils/cpp", "path"]
     ]
   , "stage": ["src", "buildtool", "execution_api", "common"]
   }
diff --git a/src/buildtool/execution_api/common/tree_reader_utils.cpp b/src/buildtool/execution_api/common/tree_reader_utils.cpp
index 2ec90cc2..4d687bc5 100644
--- a/src/buildtool/execution_api/common/tree_reader_utils.cpp
+++ b/src/buildtool/execution_api/common/tree_reader_utils.cpp
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 #include "src/buildtool/logging/logger.hpp"
 #include "src/utils/cpp/expected.hpp"
 #include "src/utils/cpp/hex_string.hpp"
-#include "src/utils/cpp/path.hpp"
 
 namespace {
 [[nodiscard]] auto CreateObjectInfo(HashFunction hash_function,
@@ -104,12 +103,6 @@ auto TreeReaderUtils::ReadObjectInfos(bazel_re::Directory const& dir,
         }
 
         for (auto const& l : dir.symlinks()) {
-            // check validity of symlinks
-            if (not PathIsNonUpwards(l.target())) {
-                Logger::Log(
-                    LogLevel::Error, "found invalid symlink at {}", l.name());
-                return false;
-            }
             if (not store_info(l.name(), CreateObjectInfo(hash_function, l))) {
                 return false;
             }