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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index d4a6dd772303..fc193c684a57 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2114,8 +2114,10 @@ static int link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) return PTR_ERR(name); while (*name=='/') name++; - if (!*name) + if (!*name) { + nd->dir_mode = 0; // short-circuit the 'hardening' idiocy return 0; + } /* At this point we know we have a real path component. */ for(;;) { |