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do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to con…
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…fuse us

commit c80567c 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
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Al Viro authored and Jiri Slaby committed Mar 3, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -3116,6 +3116,10 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
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);
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