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| author | Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> | 2011-11-02 09:44:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Christoph Hellwig <hch@serles.lst.de> | 2011-11-02 12:53:42 +0100 |
| commit | 1fa1e7f615f4d3ae436fa319af6e4eebdd4026a8 (patch) | |
| tree | aa3521aaa762424cc7fb38dbf924a34dac1b03c2 /include/linux/namei.h | |
| parent | 32096ea1aac14e6f29d4744924092eca52b937b0 (diff) | |
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readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups
Since the commit below which added O_PATH support to the *at() calls, the
error return for readlink/readlinkat for the empty pathname has switched
from ENOENT to EINVAL:
commit 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d
Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun Mar 13 15:56:26 2011 -0400
readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames
This is both unexpected for userspace and makes readlink/readlinkat
inconsistant with all other interfaces; and inconsistant with our stated
return for these pathnames.
As the readlinkat call does not have a flags parameter we cannot use the
AT_EMPTY_PATH approach used in the other calls. Therefore expose whether
the original path is infact entry via a new user_path_at_empty() path
lookup function. Use this to determine whether to default to EINVAL or
ENOENT for failures.
Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817187
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused getname_flags()]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/namei.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/namei.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index 409328d1cbbb..ffc02135c483 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND}; #define LOOKUP_EMPTY 0x4000 extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *); +extern int user_path_at_empty(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *, int *empty); #define user_path(name, path) user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, path) #define user_lpath(name, path) user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, 0, path) |