linux-kernel - [PATCH] statx: correct error handling of NULL pathname

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:54:11 +0200
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        fstests <fstests@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, hch@...radead.org
Subject: [PATCH] statx: correct error handling of NULL pathname


The change in 1e2f82d1e9d1 to error on a NULL pathname to statx()
is inconsistent.  It results in the error EINVAL for a NULL pathname.
Consistent with similar APIs (fchownat(), fstatat(), linkat()),
the error should be EFAULT.

The solution is simply to remove the EINVAL check. As I already
pointed out in https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/26/561, user_path_at*()
and filename_lookup() will handle the NULL pathname as per
the other APIs, to correctly produce the error EFAULT.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
---
 fs/stat.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index 3d85747..a257b87 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -567,8 +567,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(statx,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if ((flags & AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE) == AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if (!filename)
-		return -EINVAL;
 
 	error = vfs_statx(dfd, filename, flags, &stat, mask);
 	if (error)
-- 
2.5.5

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/