From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> If open flags has O_EXCL and dentry is positive after lookup then return -EEXIST instead of "1". This bug resulted in some O_EXCL opens succeeding (on a cache miss) despite the file already existing. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c index 94de6d1..915cea5 100644 --- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c @@ -863,8 +863,15 @@ v9fs_vfs_atomic_open(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, } /* Only creates */ - if (!(flags & O_CREAT) || dentry->d_inode) + if (!(flags & O_CREAT)) { return finish_no_open(file, res); + } else { + err = -EEXIST; + if (flags & O_EXCL) + goto out; + + return finish_no_open(file, res); + } err = 0; fid = NULL; -- 1.8.1.4 -- 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