linux-kernel - Re: sys_readlink() with empty filename

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Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:47:47 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	"viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sys_readlink() with empty filename

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:21:29PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> In commit 65cfc672 ("readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty
> relative pathnames") you changed the behaviour of the readlink syscall so
> that LOOKUP_EMPTY is passed in the lookup flags. This causes the syscall to
> return -EINVAL rather than -ENOENT if the filename is empty.
> 
> Looking at the man page for readlink, it's not obvious to me what the
> correct behaviour should be. However, this change has also been noticed by
> the gnulib guys because it causes the coreutils tests to fail:
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/25791
> 
> I noticed it as a regression in LTP.
> 
> So is this behaviour unspecified by POSIX and are the tests all broken or
> should it be fixed in the kernel / C library?

Any comments on this? I'm reluctant to start changing tests if this is just
an oversight in the kernel.

Thanks,

Will
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