1. 04 Mar, 2011 1 commit
    • Al Viro's avatar
      minimal fix for do_filp_open() race · 1858efd4
      Al Viro authored
      failure exits on the no-O_CREAT side of do_filp_open() merge with
      those of O_CREAT one; unfortunately, if do_path_lookup() returns
      -ESTALE, we'll get out_filp:, notice that we are about to return
      -ESTALE without having trying to create the sucker with LOOKUP_REVAL
      and jump right into the O_CREAT side of code.  And proceed to try
      and create a file.  Usually that'll fail with -ESTALE again, but
      we can race and get that attempt of pathname resolution to succeed.
      
      open() without O_CREAT really shouldn't end up creating files, races
      or not.  The real fix is to rearchitect the whole do_filp_open(),
      but for now splitting the failure exits will do.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      1858efd4
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