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[ Upstream commit b3d4650d82c71b9c9a8184de9e8bb656012b289e ] When asked to create a path ending '/', but which is not to be a directory (LOOKUP_DIRECTORY not set), filename_create() will never try to create the file. If it doesn't exist, -ENOENT is reported. However, it still passes LOOKUP_CREATE|LOOKUP_EXCL to the filesystems ->lookup() function, even though there is no intent to create. This is misleading and can cause incorrect behaviour. If you try ln -s foo /path/dir/ where 'dir' is a directory on an NFS filesystem which is not currently known in the dcache, this will fail with ENOENT. But as the name is not in the dcache, nfs_lookup gets called with LOOKUP_CREATE|LOOKUP_EXCL and so it returns NULL without performing any lookup, with the expectation that a subsequent call to create the target will be made, and the lookup can be combined with the creation. In the case with a trailing '/' and no LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, that call is never made. Instead filename_create() sees that the dentry is not (yet) positive and returns -ENOENT - even though the directory actually exists. So only set LOOKUP_CREATE|LOOKUP_EXCL if there really is an intent to create, and use the absence of these flags to decide if -ENOENT should be returned. Note that filename_parentat() is only interested in LOOKUP_REVAL, so we split that out and store it in 'reval_flag'. __lookup_hash() then gets reval_flag combined with whatever create flags were determined to be needed. Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.