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author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2012-03-06 07:56:34 -0500 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-03-10 17:05:30 -0500 |
commit | 7f6c7e62fcc123e6bd9206da99a2163fe3facc31 (patch) | |
tree | 1ab20c92d09849bee893a80baefa0057bbc072ed /fs/namei.c | |
parent | 097b180ca09b581ef0dc24fbcfc1b227de3875df (diff) |
vfs: fix return value from do_last()
complete_walk() returns either ECHILD or ESTALE. do_last() turns this into
ECHILD unconditionally. If not in RCU mode, this error will reach userspace
which is complete nonsense.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index f79aef16320b..46ea9cc16647 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c | |||
@@ -2162,7 +2162,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path, | |||
2162 | /* sayonara */ | 2162 | /* sayonara */ |
2163 | error = complete_walk(nd); | 2163 | error = complete_walk(nd); |
2164 | if (error) | 2164 | if (error) |
2165 | return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); | 2165 | return ERR_PTR(error); |
2166 | 2166 | ||
2167 | error = -ENOTDIR; | 2167 | error = -ENOTDIR; |
2168 | if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) { | 2168 | if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) { |