From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> complete_walk() returns either ECHILD or ESTALE. do_last() turns this into ECHILD unconditionally. If not in RCU mode, this error will reach userspace which is complete nonsense.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index f79aef1..46ea9cc 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2162,7 +2162,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path, /* sayonara */ error = complete_walk(nd); if (error) - return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); + return ERR_PTR(error); error = -ENOTDIR; if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) { -- 1.7.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
