[PATCH 6.12 487/567] btrfs: dont rewrite ret from inode_permission

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:41:16Z

From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>

[ Upstream commit 0185c2292c600993199bc6b1f342ad47a9e8c678 ]

In our user safe ino resolve ioctl we'll just turn any ret into -EACCES
from inode_permission(). This is redundant, and could potentially be
wrong if we had an ENOMEM in the security layer or some such other
error, so simply return the actual return value.

Note: The patch was taken from v5 of fscrypt patchset
(https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/cover.1706116485.git.josef@toxicpanda.com/)
which was handled over time by various people: Omar Sandoval, Sweet Tea
Dorminy, Josef Bacik.

Fixes: 23d0b79dfaed ("btrfs: Add unprivileged version of ino_lookup ioctl")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vacek <neelx@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ add note ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ Adjust context ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -2012,10 +2012,8 @@ static int btrfs_search_path_in_tree_use
ret = inode_permission(idmap, temp_inode,
MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC);
iput(temp_inode);
- if (ret) {
- ret = -EACCES;
+ if (ret)
goto out_put;
- }

if (key.offset == upper_limit)
break;