From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit c80567c82ae4814a41287618e315a60ecf513be6 upstream. ... into returning a positive to path_openat(), which would interpret that as "symlink had been encountered" and proceed to corrupt memory, etc. It can only happen due to a bug in some ->open() instance or in some LSM hook, etc., so we report any such event *and* make sure it doesn't trick us into further unpleasantness. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index d1c0b91b4534..b1b1781faca1 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3116,6 +3116,10 @@ opened: goto exit_fput; } out: + if (unlikely(error > 0)) { + WARN_ON(1); + error = -EINVAL; + } if (got_write) mnt_drop_write(nd->path.mnt); path_put(&save_parent); -- 2.7.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html