From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Return proper error value for linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) without enough privileges. I guess ENOENT was used here, because without AT_EMPTY_PATH that's what we'd return for an empty path. But it is wrong for AT_EMPTY_PATH, since we might not even be passing an empty path, we are simply complaining about lack of privs for which EPERM is the proper error. Fixes: 11a7b371b64e ("fs: allow AT_EMPTY_PATH in linkat()...") Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.39+ --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3957,7 +3957,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(linkat, int, olddfd, con */ if (flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH) { if (!capable(CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH)) - return -ENOENT; + return -EPERM; how = LOOKUP_EMPTY; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html