From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit c80567c82ae4814a41287618e315a60ecf513be6 ] ... 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. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.6+, at least Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index ccd7f98..4385722 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3152,6 +3152,10 @@ 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); -- 2.5.0 -- 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