From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755286Ab2BBD1Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:27:25 -0500 Received: from out03.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.233]:40638 "EHLO out03.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755148Ab2BBD1W (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:27:22 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Cc: , , Lucian Adrian Grijincu , Damien Millescamps , Dan Carpenter Subject: [PATCH 4/4] sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link. References: Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:30:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:27:51 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in01.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=98.207.153.68;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1+5zG8pzdW4/CSYQFTNT5PC6w7pV3fucNw= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in01.mta.xmission.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There are no functional changes. Just code motion to make it clear that we don't follow a link between sysctl roots unless the directory entry actually is a link. Suggested-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index e5601dc..a7708b7 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -451,10 +451,12 @@ static struct dentry *proc_sys_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, if (!p) goto out; - ret = sysctl_follow_link(&h, &p, current->nsproxy); - err = ERR_PTR(ret); - if (ret) - goto out; + if (S_ISLNK(p->mode)) { + ret = sysctl_follow_link(&h, &p, current->nsproxy); + err = ERR_PTR(ret); + if (ret) + goto out; + } err = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->i_sb, h ? h : head, p); @@ -601,10 +603,12 @@ static int proc_sys_link_fill_cache(struct file *filp, void *dirent, int err, ret = 0; head = sysctl_head_grab(head); - /* It is not an error if we can not follow the link ignore it */ - err = sysctl_follow_link(&head, &table, current->nsproxy); - if (err) - goto out; + if (S_ISLNK(table->mode)) { + /* It is not an error if we can not follow the link ignore it */ + err = sysctl_follow_link(&head, &table, current->nsproxy); + if (err) + goto out; + } ret = proc_sys_fill_cache(filp, dirent, filldir, head, table); out: @@ -950,10 +954,6 @@ static int sysctl_follow_link(struct ctl_table_header **phead, struct ctl_dir *dir; int ret; - /* Get out quickly if not a link */ - if (!S_ISLNK((*pentry)->mode)) - return 0; - ret = 0; spin_lock(&sysctl_lock); root = (*pentry)->data; -- 1.7.2.5