On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:39:44PM -0800, John Johansen wrote:
> -ESTALE used to be incorrectly used to indicate a disconnected path, when
> name lookup failed.  This was fixed in commit e1b0e444 to correctly return
> -EACCESS, but the error to failure message mapping was not correctly updated
> to reflect this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Johansen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steve Beattie <[email protected]>

As an aside, I remembered asking a question about needing to keep
the reverse patch around for older kernels that returned -ESTALE, and
found it in the archives. Turned out I had already acked this patch
and patches 1 and 2 the prior time you sent them to the list. Any
chance you can hang on to the acked-by statements or is that not
possible in git?

> ---
>  security/apparmor/path.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/path.c b/security/apparmor/path.c
> index e91ffee..35b394a 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/path.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/path.c
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static int get_name_to_buffer(struct path *path, int 
> flags, char *buffer,
>       if (info && error) {
>               if (error == -ENOENT)
>                       *info = "Failed name lookup - deleted entry";
> -             else if (error == -ESTALE)
> +             else if (error == -EACCES)
>                       *info = "Failed name lookup - disconnected path";
>               else if (error == -ENAMETOOLONG)
>                       *info = "Failed name lookup - name too long";

-- 
Steve Beattie
<[email protected]>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/

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