From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933009AbcCGXVC (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:21:02 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:39625 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753417AbcCGWz0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2016 17:55:26 -0500 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Al Viro , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 218/273] do_last(): ELOOP failure exit should be done after leaving RCU mode Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:50:09 -0800 Message-Id: <1457391064-6660-219-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 In-Reply-To: <1457391064-6660-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1457391064-6660-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Al Viro commit 5129fa482b16615fd4464d2f5d23acb1b7056c66 upstream. ... or we risk seeing a bogus value of d_is_symlink() there. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- fs/namei.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 414561f..7f8e493 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3152,11 +3152,6 @@ finish_lookup: if (unlikely(error)) return error; - if (unlikely(d_is_symlink(path.dentry)) && !(open_flag & O_PATH)) { - path_to_nameidata(&path, nd); - return -ELOOP; - } - if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) || nd->path.mnt != path.mnt) { path_to_nameidata(&path, nd); } else { @@ -3175,6 +3170,10 @@ finish_open: return error; } audit_inode(nd->name, nd->path.dentry, 0); + if (unlikely(d_is_symlink(nd->path.dentry)) && !(open_flag & O_PATH)) { + error = -ELOOP; + goto out; + } error = -EISDIR; if ((open_flag & O_CREAT) && d_is_dir(nd->path.dentry)) goto out; -- 2.7.0