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Subject[PATCH 2/9] vfs: fix return value from do_last()
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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

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
---
fs/namei.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index f79aef1..46ea9cc 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2162,7 +2162,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
/* sayonara */
error = complete_walk(nd);
if (error)
- return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
+ return ERR_PTR(error);

error = -ENOTDIR;
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) {
--
1.7.7


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