From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> O_CREAT | O_EXCL means "-EEXIST if we run into a trailing symlink". As it is, we might or might not have LOOKUP_FOLLOW in op->intent in that case - that depends upon having O_NOFOLLOW in open flags. It doesn't matter, since we won't be checking it in that case - do_last() bails out earlier. However, making sure it's not set (i.e. acting as if we had an explicit O_NOFOLLOW) makes the behaviour more explicit and allows to reorder the check for O_CREAT | O_EXCL in do_last() with the call of step_into() immediately following it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 15 +++++---------- fs/open.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 3b6f60c02f8a..c19b458f66da 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3262,22 +3262,17 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd, if (unlikely(error < 0)) return error; - /* - * create/update audit record if it already exists. - */ - audit_inode(nd->name, path.dentry, 0); - - if (unlikely((open_flag & (O_EXCL | O_CREAT)) == (O_EXCL | O_CREAT))) { - path_to_nameidata(&path, nd); - return -EEXIST; - } - seq = 0; /* out of RCU mode, so the value doesn't matter */ inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); finish_lookup: error = step_into(nd, &path, 0, inode, seq); if (unlikely(error)) return error; + + if (unlikely((open_flag & (O_EXCL | O_CREAT)) == (O_EXCL | O_CREAT))) { + audit_inode(nd->name, nd->path.dentry, 0); + return -EEXIST; + } finish_open: /* Why this, you ask? _Now_ we might have grown LOOKUP_JUMPED... */ error = complete_walk(nd); diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index b62f5c0923a8..ba7009a5dd1a 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -1014,8 +1014,10 @@ static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *o if (flags & O_CREAT) { op->intent |= LOOKUP_CREATE; - if (flags & O_EXCL) + if (flags & O_EXCL) { op->intent |= LOOKUP_EXCL; + flags |= O_NOFOLLOW; + } } if (flags & O_DIRECTORY) -- 2.20.1