Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Theodore Ts'o <> | Subject | [PATCH] vfs: make unlink() return ENOENT in preference to EROFS | Date | Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:36:50 -0400 |
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If user space attempts to unlink a non-existent file, and the file system is mounted read-only, return ENOENT instead of EROFS. Either error code is arguably valid/correct, but ENOENT is a more specific error message.
Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 1ab641f..a9edbe0 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2708,9 +2708,9 @@ static long do_unlinkat(int dfd, const char __user *pathname) error = PTR_ERR(dentry); if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) { /* Why not before? Because we want correct error value */ - if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len]) - goto slashes; inode = dentry->d_inode; + if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode) + goto slashes; if (inode) ihold(inode); error = mnt_want_write(nd.path.mnt); -- 1.7.4.1.22.gec8e1.dirty
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