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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-05-12 16:53:42 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-05-15 01:10:41 -0400
commitabc9f5beb1ca97b5157914c83c85d67a6b665d74 (patch)
treeb62c7291495137f2c3a5c50276bd7f92c426b38f /fs/namei.c
parent9ad1aaa61522ffba001a5599623182fe23083a94 (diff)
downloadlinux-abc9f5beb1ca97b5157914c83c85d67a6b665d74.tar.bz2
namei: make filename_lookup() reject ERR_PTR() passed as name
makes for much easier life in callers Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c30
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 2999404c8d30..a9c593e4f35e 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2122,7 +2122,10 @@ static int filename_lookup(int dfd, struct filename *name, unsigned flags,
struct path *path, struct path *root)
{
int retval;
- struct nameidata nd, *saved_nd = set_nameidata(&nd);
+ struct nameidata nd, *saved_nd;
+ if (IS_ERR(name))
+ return PTR_ERR(name);
+ saved_nd = set_nameidata(&nd);
if (unlikely(root)) {
nd.root = *root;
flags |= LOOKUP_ROOT;
@@ -2212,10 +2215,8 @@ out:
int kern_path(const char *name, unsigned int flags, struct path *path)
{
- struct filename *filename = getname_kernel(name);
- if (IS_ERR(filename))
- return PTR_ERR(filename);
- return filename_lookup(AT_FDCWD, filename, flags, path, NULL);
+ return filename_lookup(AT_FDCWD, getname_kernel(name),
+ flags, path, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kern_path);
@@ -2232,15 +2233,9 @@ int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
struct path *path)
{
struct path root = {.mnt = mnt, .dentry = dentry};
- struct filename *filename = getname_kernel(name);
-
- BUG_ON(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT);
-
- if (IS_ERR(filename))
- return PTR_ERR(filename);
-
/* the first argument of filename_lookup() is ignored with root */
- return filename_lookup(AT_FDCWD, filename, flags , path, &root);
+ return filename_lookup(AT_FDCWD, getname_kernel(name),
+ flags , path, &root);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_path_lookup);
@@ -2298,13 +2293,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_one_len);
int user_path_at_empty(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
struct path *path, int *empty)
{
- struct filename *tmp = getname_flags(name, flags, empty);
- if (IS_ERR(tmp))
- return PTR_ERR(tmp);
-
- BUG_ON(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT);
-
- return filename_lookup(dfd, tmp, flags, path, NULL);
+ return filename_lookup(dfd, getname_flags(name, flags, empty),
+ flags, path, NULL);
}
int user_path_at(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,