vfs: make unlink() and rmdir() return ENOENT in preference to EROFS
If user space attempts to remove a non-existent file or directory, and
the file system is mounted read-only, return ENOENT instead of EROFS.
Either error code is arguably valid/correct, but ENOENT is a more
specific error message.
Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index e2e4e8d..9802345 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2624,6 +2624,10 @@
error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
if (IS_ERR(dentry))
goto exit2;
+ if (!dentry->d_inode) {
+ error = -ENOENT;
+ goto exit3;
+ }
error = mnt_want_write(nd.path.mnt);
if (error)
goto exit3;
@@ -2709,11 +2713,10 @@
error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
/* Why not before? Because we want correct error value */
- if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len])
- goto slashes;
inode = dentry->d_inode;
- if (inode)
- ihold(inode);
+ if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode)
+ goto slashes;
+ ihold(inode);
error = mnt_want_write(nd.path.mnt);
if (error)
goto exit2;