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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-04-22 12:10:45 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-05-10 22:18:31 -0400
commita5cfe2d5e14d4c2dec06b22d18050c443c7537f9 (patch)
tree675ff9450e7eafa62da07c63bc4262964909246c /fs/namei.c
parentfd2805be238947eb819284189205e8de6f6c41c4 (diff)
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do_last: regularize the logics around following symlinks
With LOOKUP_FOLLOW we unlazy and return 1; without it we either fail with ELOOP or, for O_PATH opens, succeed. No need to mix those cases... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3e452338f1b7..54cbfe799249 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3046,9 +3046,7 @@ retry_lookup:
goto out;
}
finish_lookup:
- /* we _can_ be in RCU mode here */
- if (should_follow_link(path->dentry,
- !(open_flag & O_PATH) || (nd->flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW))) {
+ if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, nd->flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) {
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
if (unlikely(nd->path.mnt != path->mnt ||
unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
@@ -3057,14 +3055,15 @@ finish_lookup:
}
}
BUG_ON(inode != path->dentry->d_inode);
- if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) {
- path_put_conditional(path, nd);
- path_put(&nd->path);
- return -ELOOP;
- }
return 1;
}
+ if (unlikely(d_is_symlink(path->dentry)) && !(open_flag & O_PATH)) {
+ path_to_nameidata(path, nd);
+ error = -ELOOP;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) || nd->path.mnt != path->mnt) {
path_to_nameidata(path, nd);
} else {