linux-kernel - [PATCH 08/16] vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O

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Message-Id: <1337614220-6174-9-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2012 17:30:12 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mszeredi@...e.cz
Subject: [PATCH 08/16] vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT

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

This allows this code to be shared between O_CREAT and plain opens.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
---
 fs/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d17a4e4..e3136b7 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2386,7 +2386,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
 	if (error)
 		return ERR_PTR(error);
 	error = -EISDIR;
-	if (S_ISDIR(nd->inode->i_mode))
+	if ((open_flag & O_CREAT) && S_ISDIR(nd->inode->i_mode))
 		goto exit;
 	error = -ENOTDIR;
 	if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && !nd->inode->i_op->lookup)
-- 
1.7.7

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