Re: [PATCH] fs: Fix link_path_walk to return -ENOENT on empty path

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On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 01:34:09AM +0200, Jules Maselbas wrote:
> link_path_walk was returning 0 when passed with an empty path,
> this lead calling code to assume that the struct nameidata nd
> is valid and thus has a `last` field populated, which is not.
> In the end causing a runtime crash.
> 
> This issue can easily be reproduced by running the command:
> cat ""
> 
> Reported-by: Neeraj Pal <neerajpal09@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jules Maselbas <jmaselbas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/fs.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> diff --git a/fs/fs.c b/fs/fs.c
> index a02332491..6de5a3b59 100644
> --- a/fs/fs.c
> +++ b/fs/fs.c
> @@ -1928,6 +1928,8 @@ static int link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd)
>  	int err;
>  	char separator = '/';
>  
> +	if (!*name)
> +		return -ENOENT;
>  	while (*name=='/')
>  		name++;
>  	if (!*name)
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 
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