Re: [PATCH] Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in path_init (2)

Linus Torvalds
2020-08-12T04:30:11Z

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:15 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
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> fix breakage in do_rmdir()
>
> putname() should happen only after we'd *not* branched to
> retry, same as it's done in do_unlinkat().

Looks obviously correct.

Do you want me to apply directly, or do you have other fixes pending
and I'll get a pull request?

Linus