FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fix EOPENSTALE bug in do_last()" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From fac7d1917dfddfa53e98524f0abfbe60252740fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 11:41:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix EOPENSTALE bug in do_last()

EOPENSTALE occuring at the last component of a trailing symlink ends up
with do_last() retrying its lookup.  After the symlink body has been
discarded.  The thing is, all this retry_lookup logics in there is not
needed at all - the upper layers will do the right thing if we simply
return that -EOPENSTALE as we would with any other error.  Trying to
microoptimize in do_last() is a lot of headache for no good reason.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Tested-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 4c4f95ac8aa5..3d9511e656ab 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3166,9 +3166,7 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd,
 	int acc_mode = op->acc_mode;
 	unsigned seq;
 	struct inode *inode;
-	struct path save_parent = { .dentry = NULL, .mnt = NULL };
 	struct path path;
-	bool retried = false;
 	int error;
 
 	nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_PARENT;
@@ -3211,7 +3209,6 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd,
 			return -EISDIR;
 	}
 
-retry_lookup:
 	if (open_flag & (O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_WRONLY | O_RDWR)) {
 		error = mnt_want_write(nd->path.mnt);
 		if (!error)
@@ -3292,23 +3289,14 @@ finish_lookup:
 	if (unlikely(error))
 		return error;
 
-	if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) || nd->path.mnt != path.mnt) {
-		path_to_nameidata(&path, nd);
-	} else {
-		save_parent.dentry = nd->path.dentry;
-		save_parent.mnt = mntget(path.mnt);
-		nd->path.dentry = path.dentry;
-
-	}
+	path_to_nameidata(&path, nd);
 	nd->inode = inode;
 	nd->seq = seq;
 	/* Why this, you ask?  _Now_ we might have grown LOOKUP_JUMPED... */
 finish_open:
 	error = complete_walk(nd);
-	if (error) {
-		path_put(&save_parent);
+	if (error)
 		return error;
-	}
 	audit_inode(nd->name, nd->path.dentry, 0);
 	error = -EISDIR;
 	if ((open_flag & O_CREAT) && d_is_dir(nd->path.dentry))
@@ -3331,13 +3319,9 @@ finish_open_created:
 		goto out;
 	BUG_ON(*opened & FILE_OPENED); /* once it's opened, it's opened */
 	error = vfs_open(&nd->path, file, current_cred());
-	if (!error) {
-		*opened |= FILE_OPENED;
-	} else {
-		if (error == -EOPENSTALE)
-			goto stale_open;
+	if (error)
 		goto out;
-	}
+	*opened |= FILE_OPENED;
 opened:
 	error = open_check_o_direct(file);
 	if (!error)
@@ -3353,26 +3337,7 @@ out:
 	}
 	if (got_write)
 		mnt_drop_write(nd->path.mnt);
-	path_put(&save_parent);
 	return error;
-
-stale_open:
-	/* If no saved parent or already retried then can't retry */
-	if (!save_parent.dentry || retried)
-		goto out;
-
-	BUG_ON(save_parent.dentry != dir);
-	path_put(&nd->path);
-	nd->path = save_parent;
-	nd->inode = dir->d_inode;
-	save_parent.mnt = NULL;
-	save_parent.dentry = NULL;
-	if (got_write) {
-		mnt_drop_write(nd->path.mnt);
-		got_write = false;
-	}
-	retried = true;
-	goto retry_lookup;
 }
 
 static int do_tmpfile(struct nameidata *nd, unsigned flags,