From c80567c82ae4814a41287618e315a60ecf513be6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:17:33 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index f624d13..e30deef 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3273,6 +3273,10 @@ 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); -- 2.7.4