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Bruce Fields" , Arnd Bergmann , David Howells , Shuah Khan , Shuah Khan , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Martin KaFai Lau , Song Liu , Yonghong Song , Andrii Nakryiko , Jonathan Corbet Subject: [PATCH v18 01/13] namei: only return -ECHILD from follow_dotdot_rcu() Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 01:13:26 +1100 Message-Id: <20191206141338.23338-2-cyphar@cyphar.com> In-Reply-To: <20191206141338.23338-1-cyphar@cyphar.com> References: <20191206141338.23338-1-cyphar@cyphar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Shishkin , Rasmus Villemoes , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Tycho Andersen , Aleksa Sarai , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, David Drysdale , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Kees Cook , Jann Horn , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, dev@opencontainers.org, Aleksa Sarai , Andy Lutomirski , Namhyung Kim , Andrew Morton , Christian Brauner , libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Chanho Min , Oleg Nesterov , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" It's over-zealous to return hard errors under RCU-walk here, given that a REF-walk will be triggered for all other cases handling ".." under RCU. The original purpose of this check was to ensure that if a rename occurs such that a directory is moved outside of the bind-mount which the resolution started in, it would be detected and blocked to avoid being able to mess with paths outside of the bind-mount. However, triggering a new REF-walk is just as effective a solution. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Fixes: 397d425dc26d ("vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root") Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 671c3c1a3425..5a47d9c09581 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ static int follow_dotdot_rcu(struct nameidata *nd) nd->path.dentry = parent; nd->seq = seq; if (unlikely(!path_connected(&nd->path))) - return -ENOENT; + return -ECHILD; break; } else { struct mount *mnt = real_mount(nd->path.mnt); -- 2.24.0