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Since the commit below which added O_PATH support to the *at() calls, the
authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:46:15 +0000 (09:46 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:15:02 +0000 (15:15 +1000)
commite677bfb31e04cb3c13f05c4adbccc7b83b4e035d
tree5da80e1866c73a5dc3537284dc05051895e3a79b
parent0c3ac2e0de37697d4f77c44c9dbef3a421b4433c
Since the commit below which added O_PATH support to the *at() calls, the
error return for readlink/readlinkat for the empty pathname has switched
from ENOENT to EINVAL:

  commit 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d
  Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
  Date:   Sun Mar 13 15:56:26 2011 -0400

    readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames

This is both unexpected for userspace and makes readlink/readlinkat
inconsistant with all other interfaces; and inconsistant with our stated
return for these pathnames.

As the readlinkat call does not have a flags parameter we cannot use the
AT_EMPTY_PATH approach used in the other calls.  Therefore expose whether
the original path is infact entry via a new user_path_at_empty() path
lookup function.  Use this to determine whether to default to EINVAL or
ENOENT for failures.

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817187
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/namei.c
fs/stat.c
include/linux/namei.h