This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vfs: fix return value from do_last()
to the 3.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
vfs-fix-return-value-from-do_last.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 7f6c7e62fcc123e6bd9206da99a2163fe3facc31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 13:56:34 +0100
Subject: vfs: fix return value from do_last()
From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
commit 7f6c7e62fcc123e6bd9206da99a2163fe3facc31 upstream.
complete_walk() returns either ECHILD or ESTALE. do_last() turns this into
ECHILD unconditionally. If not in RCU mode, this error will reach userspace
which is complete nonsense.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/namei.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2139,7 +2139,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct namei
/* sayonara */
error = complete_walk(nd);
if (error)
- return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
error = -ENOTDIR;
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.2/vfs-fix-double-put-after-complete_walk.patch
queue-3.2/vfs-fix-return-value-from-do_last.patch
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