Patch "do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
do_last-don-t-let-a-bogus-return-value-from-open-et.al.-to-confuse-us.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 19:17:33 -0500
Subject: do_last(): don't let a bogus return value from ->open() et.al. to confuse us

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>

commit c80567c82ae4814a41287618e315a60ecf513be6 upstream.

... into returning a positive to path_openat(), which would interpret that as "symlink had been encountered" and proceed to corrupt memory, etc. It can only happen due to a bug in some ->open() instance or in some LSM hook, etc., so we report any such event *and* make sure it doesn't trick us into further unpleasantness.

---
 fs/namei.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

@@ -3210,6 +3210,10 @@ opened:
 			goto exit_fput;
 	}
 out:
+	if (unlikely(error > 0)) {
+		WARN_ON(1);
+		error = -EINVAL;
+	}
 	if (got_write)
 		mnt_drop_write(nd->path.mnt);
 	path_put(&save_parent);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/make-sure-that-freeing-shmem-fast-symlinks-is-rcu-delayed.patch queue-4.4/do_last-eloop-failure-exit-should-be-done-after-leaving-rcu-mode.patch queue-4.4/bcache-fix-a-leak-in-bch_cached_dev_run.patch queue-4.4/do_last-don-t-let-a-bogus-return-value-from-open-et.al.-to-confuse-us.patch queue-4.4/locks-fix-unlock-when-fcntl_setlk-races-with-a-close.patch queue-4.4/namei-d_inode-of-a-pinned-dentry-is-stable-only-for-positives.patch queue-4.4/should_follow_link-validate-d_seq-after-having-decided-to-follow.patch queue-4.4/uml-fix-hostfs-mknod.patch queue-4.4/hpfs-don-t-truncate-the-file-when-delete-fails.patch