From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: [PATCH 38/79] link_path_walk: handle get_link() returning ERR_PTR() immediately Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 06:22:12 +0100 Message-ID: <1430803373-4948-38-git-send-email-viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20150505052205.GS889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Neil Brown , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:40117 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755793AbbEEFXw (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2015 01:23:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150505052205.GS889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Al Viro If we get ERR_PTR() from get_link(), we are guaranteed to get err != 0 when we break out of do-while, so we are going to hit if (err) return err; shortly after it. Pull that into the if (IS_ERR(s)) body. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 7537ae0..ea528ca 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1784,7 +1784,9 @@ static int link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) if (unlikely(IS_ERR(s))) { err = PTR_ERR(s); - break; + current->link_count--; + nd->depth--; + return err; } err = 0; if (likely(s)) { -- 2.1.4