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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2009-12-24 02:27:30 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2010-03-05 09:01:22 -0500 |
| commit | c99658fe970f442199733bcace1a00b087336a0d (patch) | |
| tree | b9065b274d8f00639af43bbb8e4eaabcda5b559d /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | a1e28038df98e186807ff55a49c1c26d33d530a5 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c99658fe970f442199733bcace1a00b087336a0d.tar.gz lwn-c99658fe970f442199733bcace1a00b087336a0d.zip | |
bail out with ELOOP earlier in do_link loop
If we'd passed through 32 trailing symlinks already, there's
no sense following the 33rd - we'll bail out anyway. Better
bugger off earlier.
It *does* change behaviour, after a fashion - if the 33rd happens
to be a procfs-style symlink, original code *would* allow it.
This one will not. Cry me a river if that hurts you. Please, do.
And post a video of that, while you are at it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 976fc323272e..84f1ec3b4a5d 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ exit_parent: do_link: error = -ELOOP; - if (flag & O_NOFOLLOW) + if ((flag & O_NOFOLLOW) || count++ == 32) goto exit_dput; /* * This is subtle. Instead of calling do_follow_link() we do the @@ -1915,11 +1915,6 @@ do_link: __putname(nd.last.name); goto exit; } - error = -ELOOP; - if (count++==32) { - __putname(nd.last.name); - goto exit; - } filp = do_last(&nd, &path, open_flag, flag, acc_mode, mode, pathname, &is_link); __putname(nd.last.name); |