Skip to content
Commit 02ecee5f authored by Aleksa Sarai's avatar Aleksa Sarai Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
Browse files

namei: only return -ECHILD from follow_dotdot_rcu()

commit 2b98149c upstream.

It's over-zealous to return hard errors under RCU-walk here, given that
a REF-walk will be triggered for all other cases handling ".." under
RCU.

The original purpose of this check was to ensure that if a rename occurs
such that a directory is moved outside of the bind-mount which the
resolution started in, it would be detected and blocked to avoid being
able to mess with paths outside of the bind-mount. However, triggering a
new REF-walk is just as effective a solution.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Fixes: 397d425d

 ("vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root")
Suggested-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 9184d43b
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment