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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:07:29 +0000 (15:07 -0800)
commit80d18c0026eb6fc9cd9fb5a36540bfaa8a00fb47
tree31af4e41ca672ee1b0bf3463c822eefd56ab6fca
parentf634ac98bd9218feb31868b43f56e7a5999ce98e
do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us

commit c80567c82ae4814a41287618e315a60ecf513be6 upstream.

... 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.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/namei.c