Perform the check for trailing slashes right in the fastpath check and don't bother with any additional work. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 745415fcda57..08eb9a53beb7 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3618,6 +3618,9 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_fast_for_open(struct nameidata *nd, int open_flag) struct dentry *dentry; if (open_flag & O_CREAT) { + if (trailing_slashes(nd)) + return ERR_PTR(-EISDIR); + /* Don't bother on an O_EXCL create */ if (open_flag & O_EXCL) return NULL; @@ -3684,20 +3687,13 @@ static const char *open_last_lookups(struct nameidata *nd, bool unlazied; /* can stay in rcuwalk if not auditing */ - if (dentry && audit_dummy_context()) { - if (trailing_slashes(nd)) - return ERR_PTR(-EISDIR); + if (dentry && audit_dummy_context()) goto finish_lookup; - } unlazied = dentry ? try_to_unlazy_next(nd, dentry) : try_to_unlazy(nd); if (!unlazied) return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); } - if (trailing_slashes(nd)) { - dput(dentry); - return ERR_PTR(-EISDIR); - } if (dentry) goto finish_lookup; } -- 2.43.0 --37h7k3p7s7sj3yhb Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="0003-fs-remove-audit-dummy-context-check.patch"