From: Al Viro Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:17:33 +0000 (-0500) Subject: do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us X-Git-Tag: v3.12.56~5 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=66efd9e7538d2f5823e7d2ccae2b16e8e57b7d15;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git 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 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index d1c0b91b4534b..b1b1781faca15 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3116,6 +3116,10 @@ opened: goto exit_fput; } out: + if (unlikely(error > 0)) { + WARN_ON(1); + error = -EINVAL; + } if (got_write) mnt_drop_write(nd->path.mnt); path_put(&save_parent);