From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro Subject: [PATCH 3.10 79/80] do_last(): dont let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 15:46:13 -0800 Message-Id: <20160301234352.151183322@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160301234349.667990420@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160301234349.667990420@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Al Viro commit c80567c82ae4814a41287618e315a60ecf513be6 upstream. ... into returning a positive to path_openat(), which would interpret that as "symlink had been encountered" and proceed to corrupt memory, etc. It can only happen due to a bug in some ->open() instance or in some LSM hook, etc., so we report any such event *and* make sure it doesn't trick us into further unpleasantness. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2917,6 +2917,10 @@ opened: goto exit_fput; } out: + if (unlikely(error > 0)) { + WARN_ON(1); + error = -EINVAL; + } if (got_write) mnt_drop_write(nd->path.mnt); path_put(&save_parent);