do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:17:33 +0000 (19:17 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:17:33 +0000 (19:17 -0500)
commitc80567c82ae4814a41287618e315a60ecf513be6
tree34f4ef5e692f6667c9659332b56ebb09732a7534
parent0fcbf996d848d03573113d83f4e3fb3bcfa5ab5e
do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us

... into returning a positive to path_openat(), which would interpret that
as "symlink had been encountered" and proceed to corrupt memory, etc.
It can only happen due to a bug in some ->open() instance or in some LSM
hook, etc., so we report any such event *and* make sure it doesn't trick
us into further unpleasantness.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6+, at least
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/namei.c