rcu pathwalk: prevent bogus hard errors from may_lookup()
If lazy call of ->permission() returns a hard error, check that try_to_unlazy() succeeds before returning it. That both makes life easier for ->permission() instances and closes the race in ENOTDIR handling - it is possible that positive d_can_lookup() seen in link_path_walk() applies to the state *after* unlink() + mkdir(), while nd->inode matches the state prior to that. Normally seeing e.g. EACCES from permission check in rcu pathwalk means that with some timings non-rcu pathwalk would've run into the same; however, running into a non-executable regular file in the middle of a pathname would not get to permission check - it would fail with ENOTDIR instead. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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