readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups
authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2011 08:44:39 +0000 (09:44 +0100)
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@serles.lst.de>
Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:53:42 +0000 (12:53 +0100)
commit1fa1e7f615f4d3ae436fa319af6e4eebdd4026a8
treeaa3521aaa762424cc7fb38dbf924a34dac1b03c2
parent32096ea1aac14e6f29d4744924092eca52b937b0
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>
fs/namei.c
fs/stat.c
include/linux/namei.h