This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled atomic_open(): fix the handling of create_error to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: atomic_open-fix-the-handling-of-create_error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 10c64cea04d3c75c306b3f990586ffb343b63287 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:11:55 -0400 Subject: atomic_open(): fix the handling of create_error From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 10c64cea04d3c75c306b3f990586ffb343b63287 upstream. * if we have a hashed negative dentry and either CREAT|EXCL on r/o filesystem, or CREAT|TRUNC on r/o filesystem, or CREAT|EXCL with failing may_o_create(), we should fail with EROFS or the error may_o_create() has returned, but not ENOENT. Which is what the current code ends up returning. * if we have CREAT|TRUNC hitting a regular file on a read-only filesystem, we can't fail with EROFS here. At the very least, not until we'd done follow_managed() - we might have a writable file (or a device, for that matter) bound on top of that one. Moreover, the code downstream will see that O_TRUNC and attempt to grab the write access (*after* following possible mount), so if we really should fail with EROFS, it will happen. No need to do that inside atomic_open(). The real logics is much simpler than what the current code is trying to do - if we decided to go for simple lookup, ended up with a negative dentry *and* had create_error set, fail with create_error. No matter whether we'd got that negative dentry from lookup_real() or had found it in dcache. Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 20 ++++---------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2968,22 +2968,10 @@ no_open: dentry = lookup_real(dir, dentry, nd->flags); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) return PTR_ERR(dentry); - - if (create_error) { - int open_flag = op->open_flag; - - error = create_error; - if ((open_flag & O_EXCL)) { - if (!dentry->d_inode) - goto out; - } else if (!dentry->d_inode) { - goto out; - } else if ((open_flag & O_TRUNC) && - d_is_reg(dentry)) { - goto out; - } - /* will fail later, go on to get the right error */ - } + } + if (create_error && !dentry->d_inode) { + error = create_error; + goto out; } looked_up: path->dentry = dentry; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/get_rock_ridge_filename-handle-malformed-nm-entries.patch queue-4.5/atomic_open-fix-the-handling-of-create_error.patch -- 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