From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do_last()" causes segfault in glibc
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:41:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100306184107.GH30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100306183254.GG30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:32:54PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 10:20:41AM -0800, walt wrote:
> > On 03/06/2010 10:03 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> >
> > >_Really_ interesting; it doesn't look like an oops - smells like an attempt
> > >to do opendir() that fails for some reason, goes unnoticed and resulting
> > >FILE * (i.e. NULL) is fed to readdir()?
> > >
> > >What does it attempt to open?
> >
> > Ah, this may help:
> >
> > open("/usr/share/zoneinfo/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 47
> > open("/usr/share/zoneinfo/MST7MDT", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 48
>
> Now that is interesting. Looks like it has managed to lose O_DIRECTORY check
> in the open without trailing slash and (properly) barfed with / added.
OK, I can reproduce it. Give me a few, I'll see...
AAARGH.
Fix a dumb typo - use of & instead of &&
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3d9d2f9..48e60a1 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1656,7 +1656,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
if (path->dentry->d_inode->i_op->follow_link)
return NULL;
error = -ENOTDIR;
- if (*want_dir & !path->dentry->d_inode->i_op->lookup)
+ if (*want_dir && !path->dentry->d_inode->i_op->lookup)
goto exit_dput;
path_to_nameidata(path, nd);
audit_inode(pathname, nd->path.dentry);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-06 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-06 17:43 "Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do_last()" causes segfault in glibc walt
2010-03-06 17:59 ` Al Viro
2010-03-06 18:03 ` Al Viro
2010-03-06 18:20 ` walt
2010-03-06 18:24 ` Al Viro
2010-03-06 18:32 ` Al Viro
2010-03-06 18:41 ` Al Viro [this message]
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