vfs: fix return value from do_last()

commit 7f6c7e62fc upstream.

complete_walk() returns either ECHILD or ESTALE.  do_last() turns this into
ECHILD unconditionally.  If not in RCU mode, this error will reach userspace
which is complete nonsense.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Miklos Szeredi
2012-03-06 13:56:34 +01:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 60d3a45057
commit 9a2317b6ce

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@@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
/* sayonara */
error = complete_walk(nd);
if (error)
return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
return ERR_PTR(error);
error = -ENOTDIR;
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) {