From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:43114 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751494AbcGKXT2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:19:28 -0400 Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fix EOPENSTALE bug in do_last()" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, green@linuxhacker.ru, jlayton@poochiereds.net Cc: From: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:37:31 -0700 Message-ID: <1468276651115204@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 . thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >>From fac7d1917dfddfa53e98524f0abfbe60252740fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro 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 Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro 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,