Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 07:05:02 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Something broken in sys_swapon |
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Mike Black wrote:
> I think I see a potential problem (I'm looking at 2.4.10) in fs/namei.c. > > If path_init() returns 0 in __user_walk() then err is not set to anything > (it defaults to 0)
path_init() returns 0 only if you are in altroot situation (running with personality that has its own /usr/gnuemul/<...>/) _and_ it had succeeded doing lookup from the altroot. Otherwise it returns non-zero and lets path_walk() do the right thing.
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