[patch 3/4] vfs: fix ERR_PTR abuse in generic_readlink
generic_readlink calls ERR_PTR for negative and positive values
(vfs_readlink returns length of "link"), but it should not
(not an errno) and does not need to.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index ee15446..01e67dd 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2856,16 +2856,17 @@
{
struct nameidata nd;
void *cookie;
+ int res;
nd.depth = 0;
cookie = dentry->d_inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, &nd);
- if (!IS_ERR(cookie)) {
- int res = vfs_readlink(dentry, buffer, buflen, nd_get_link(&nd));
- if (dentry->d_inode->i_op->put_link)
- dentry->d_inode->i_op->put_link(dentry, &nd, cookie);
- cookie = ERR_PTR(res);
- }
- return PTR_ERR(cookie);
+ if (IS_ERR(cookie))
+ return PTR_ERR(cookie);
+
+ res = vfs_readlink(dentry, buffer, buflen, nd_get_link(&nd));
+ if (dentry->d_inode->i_op->put_link)
+ dentry->d_inode->i_op->put_link(dentry, &nd, cookie);
+ return res;
}
int vfs_follow_link(struct nameidata *nd, const char *link)