• Aleksa Sarai's avatar
    namei: only return -ECHILD from follow_dotdot_rcu() · 2b98149c
    Aleksa Sarai authored
    It's over-zealous to return hard errors under RCU-walk here, given that
    a REF-walk will be triggered for all other cases handling ".." under
    RCU.
    
    The original purpose of this check was to ensure that if a rename occurs
    such that a directory is moved outside of the bind-mount which the
    resolution started in, it would be detected and blocked to avoid being
    able to mess with paths outside of the bind-mount. However, triggering a
    new REF-walk is just as effective a solution.
    
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Fixes: 397d425d ("vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root")
    Suggested-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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