readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups
Since the commit below which added O_PATH support to the *at() calls, the
error return for readlink/readlinkat for the empty pathname has switched
from ENOENT to EINVAL:
commit 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d
Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun Mar 13 15:56:26 2011 -0400
readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames
This is both unexpected for userspace and makes readlink/readlinkat
inconsistant with all other interfaces; and inconsistant with our stated
return for these pathnames.
As the readlinkat call does not have a flags parameter we cannot use the
AT_EMPTY_PATH approach used in the other calls. Therefore expose whether
the original path is infact entry via a new user_path_at_empty() path
lookup function. Use this to determine whether to default to EINVAL or
ENOENT for failures.
Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817187
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused getname_flags()]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 7657be4..ac6d214 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
return retval;
}
-static char *getname_flags(const char __user * filename, int flags)
+static char *getname_flags(const char __user *filename, int flags, int *empty)
{
char *tmp, *result;
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@
result = tmp;
if (retval < 0) {
+ if (retval == -ENOENT && empty)
+ *empty = 1;
if (retval != -ENOENT || !(flags & LOOKUP_EMPTY)) {
__putname(tmp);
result = ERR_PTR(retval);
@@ -160,7 +162,7 @@
char *getname(const char __user * filename)
{
- return getname_flags(filename, 0);
+ return getname_flags(filename, 0, 0);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
@@ -1798,11 +1800,11 @@
return __lookup_hash(&this, base, NULL);
}
-int user_path_at(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
- struct path *path)
+int user_path_at_empty(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
+ struct path *path, int *empty)
{
struct nameidata nd;
- char *tmp = getname_flags(name, flags);
+ char *tmp = getname_flags(name, flags, empty);
int err = PTR_ERR(tmp);
if (!IS_ERR(tmp)) {
@@ -1816,6 +1818,12 @@
return err;
}
+int user_path_at(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
+ struct path *path)
+{
+ return user_path_at_empty(dfd, name, flags, path, 0);
+}
+
static int user_path_parent(int dfd, const char __user *path,
struct nameidata *nd, char **name)
{