On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 12:57:28AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > @@ -514,7 +516,14 @@ static void set_nameidata(struct nameidata *p, int dfd, struct filename *name) > p->stack = p->internal; > p->dfd = dfd; > p->name = name; > - p->total_link_count = old ? old->total_link_count : 0; > + p->total_link_count = 0; > + p->acc_mode = 0; > + p->opath_mask = FMODE_PATH_READ | FMODE_PATH_WRITE; > + if (old) { > + p->total_link_count = old->total_link_count; > + p->acc_mode = old->acc_mode; > + p->opath_mask = old->opath_mask; > + } Huh? Could somebody explain why traversals of NFS4 referrals should inherit ->acc_mode and ->opath_mask? > static __always_inline > -const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd) > +const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd, bool trailing) > { > struct saved *last = nd->stack + nd->depth - 1; > struct dentry *dentry = last->link.dentry; > @@ -1081,6 +1134,44 @@ const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd) > } else { > res = get(dentry, inode, &last->done); > } > + /* If we just jumped it was because of a magic-link. */ > + if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_JUMPED)) { That's not quite guaranteed (it is possible to bind a symlink on top of a regular file, and you will get LOOKUP_JUMPED on the entry into trailing_symlink() when looking the result up). Moreover, why bother with LOOKUP_JUMPED here? See that nd->last_type = LAST_BIND; several lines prior? That's precisely to be able to recognize those suckers. And _that_ would've avoided another piece of ugliness - your LOOKUP_JUMPED kludge forces you to handle that cra^Wsclero^Wvaluable security hardening in get_link(), instead of trailing_symlink() where you apparently want it to be. Simply because nd_jump_root() done later in get_link() will set LOOKUP_JUMPED for absolute symlinks, confusing your test. Moreover, I'm not sure that trailing_symlink() is the right place for that either - I would be rather tempted to fold do_o_path() into path_openat(), inline path_lookupat() there (as in s = path_init(nd, flags); while (!(error = link_path_walk(s, nd)) && ((error = lookup_last(nd)) > 0)) { s = trailing_symlink(nd); } if (!error) error = complete_walk(nd); if (!error && nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) if (!d_can_lookup(nd->path.dentry)) error = -ENOTDIR; if (!error) { audit_inode(nd->name, nd->path.dentry, 0); error = vfs_open(&nd->path, file); } terminate_walk(nd); - we don't need LOOKUP_DOWN there) and then we only care about the two callers of trailing_symlink() that are in path_openat(). Which is where you have your ->acc_mode and ->opath_mask without the need to dump them into nameidata. Or to bring that mess into the things like stat(2) et.al. - it simply doesn't belong there. In any case, this "bool trailing" is completely wrong; whether that check belongs in trailing_symlink() or (some of) its callers, putting it into get_link() is a mistake, forced by kludgy check for procfs-style symlinks.