From 7f6c7e62fcc123e6bd9206da99a2163fe3facc31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 13:56:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] vfs: fix return value from do_last() 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 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index f79aef16320b..46ea9cc16647 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2162,7 +2162,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path, /* sayonara */ error = complete_walk(nd); if (error) - return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); + return ERR_PTR(error); error = -ENOTDIR; if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) {