linux-kernel - [ 11/41] vfs: fix return value from do

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Message-Id: <20120316233811.589196908@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:38:21 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [ 11/41] vfs: fix return value from do_last()

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>

commit 7f6c7e62fcc123e6bd9206da99a2163fe3facc31 upstream.

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@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2139,7 +2139,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct namei
 		/* sayonara */
 		error = complete_walk(nd);
 		if (error)
-			return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
+			return ERR_PTR(error);
 
 		error = -ENOTDIR;
 		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) {


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