[PATCH 4.9 42/88] namei: only return -ECHILD from follow_dotdot_rcu()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-10T12:45:36Z

From: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>

commit 2b98149c2377bff12be5dd3ce02ae0506e2dd613 upstream.

It's over-zealous to return hard errors under RCU-walk here, given that
a REF-walk will be triggered for all other cases handling ".." under
RCU.

The original purpose of this check was to ensure that if a rename occurs
such that a directory is moved outside of the bind-mount which the
resolution started in, it would be detected and blocked to avoid being
able to mess with paths outside of the bind-mount. However, triggering a
new REF-walk is just as effective a solution.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Fixes: 397d425dc26d ("vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root")
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/namei.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ static int follow_dotdot_rcu(struct name
nd->path.dentry = parent;
nd->seq = seq;
if (unlikely(!path_connected(&nd->path)))
- return -ENOENT;
+ return -ECHILD;
break;
} else {
struct mount *mnt = real_mount(nd->path.mnt);