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| author | Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> | 2019-12-07 01:13:26 +1100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-03-11 07:53:07 +0100 |
| commit | 2739e5a9a41f75ea2e3793c1fbe328ae0c9d714e (patch) | |
| tree | 67ed05c38da334e65e820042c082e8b4964d348e /drivers | |
| parent | 41df68570b7ea89a537e5bd9c77cc4d7e2491cf9 (diff) | |
namei: only return -ECHILD from follow_dotdot_rcu()
commit 2b98149c2377bff12be5dd3ce02ae0506e2dd613 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: 397d425dc26d ("vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root")
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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