[PATCH 01/15] rcu pathwalk: prevent bogus hard errors from may_lookup()

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

If lazy call of ->permission() returns a hard error, check that
try_to_unlazy() succeeds before returning it.  That both makes
life easier for ->permission() instances and closes the race
in ENOTDIR handling - it is possible that positive d_can_lookup()
seen in link_path_walk() applies to the state *after* unlink() +
mkdir(), while nd->inode matches the state prior to that.

Normally seeing e.g. EACCES from permission check in rcu pathwalk
means that with some timings non-rcu pathwalk would've run into
the same; however, running into a non-executable regular file
in the middle of a pathname would not get to permission check -
it would fail with ENOTDIR instead.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/namei.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 567ee547492b..2494561a21fe 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1717,7 +1717,11 @@ static inline int may_lookup(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 {
 	if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
 		int err = inode_permission(idmap, nd->inode, MAY_EXEC|MAY_NOT_BLOCK);
-		if (err != -ECHILD || !try_to_unlazy(nd))
+		if (!err)		// success, keep going
+			return 0;
+		if (!try_to_unlazy(nd))
+			return -ECHILD;	// redo it all non-lazy
+		if (err != -ECHILD)	// hard error
 			return err;
 	}
 	return inode_permission(idmap, nd->inode, MAY_EXEC);
-- 
2.39.2