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Andy Whitcroft 1fa1e7f615 readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups 
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 65cfc67223
  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.

Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817187

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused getname_flags()]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-11-02 12:53:42 +01:00
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acpi PCI hotplug: acpiphp: Prevent deadlock on PCI-to-PCI bridge remove 2011-10-14 09:05:31 -07:00
asm-generic Merge Qualcom Hexagon architecture 2011-11-01 07:48:13 -07:00
crypto crypto: Add a report function pointer to crypto_type 2011-10-21 14:24:03 +02:00
drm treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...))) 2011-10-31 17:30:54 -07:00
keys
linux readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups 2011-11-02 12:53:42 +01:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2011-10-31 15:42:54 -07:00
misc [media] altera-stapl: it is time to move out from staging 2011-09-23 15:00:57 -03:00
mtd
net treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...))) 2011-10-31 17:30:54 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2011-11-01 10:51:38 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2011-10-28 16:44:18 -07:00
sound treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...))) 2011-10-31 17:30:54 -07:00
target Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-10-25 12:11:02 +02:00
trace mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
video Merge branch 'for-florian' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux into fbdev-next 2011-10-15 00:19:52 +00:00
xen treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...))) 2011-10-31 17:30:54 -07:00
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