Patch "atomic_open(): fix the handling of create_error" 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

atomic_open(): fix the handling of create_error

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:
atomic_open-fix-the-handling-of-create_error.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: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 01:11:55 -0400
Subject: atomic_open(): fix the handling of create_error

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>

commit 10c64cea04d3c75c306b3f990586ffb343b63287 upstream.

* if we have a hashed negative dentry and either CREAT|EXCL on r/o filesystem, or CREAT|TRUNC on r/o filesystem, or CREAT|EXCL with failing may_o_create(), we should fail with EROFS or the error may_o_create() has returned, but not ENOENT. Which is what the current code ends up returning.

* if we have CREAT|TRUNC hitting a regular file on a read-only filesystem, we can't fail with EROFS here. At the very least, not until we'd done follow_managed() - we might have a writable file (or a device, for that matter) bound on top of that one. Moreover, the code downstream will see that O_TRUNC and attempt to grab the write access (*after* following possible mount), so if we really should fail with EROFS, it will happen. No need to do that inside atomic_open().

The real logics is much simpler than what the current code is trying to do - if we decided to go for simple lookup, ended up with a negative dentry *and* had create_error set, fail with create_error. No matter whether we'd got that negative dentry from lookup_real() or had found it in dcache.

---
 fs/namei.c |   20 ++++----------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

@@ -2906,22 +2906,10 @@ no_open:
 		dentry = lookup_real(dir, dentry, nd->flags);
 		if (IS_ERR(dentry))
 			return PTR_ERR(dentry);
-
-		if (create_error) {
-			int open_flag = op->open_flag;
-
-			error = create_error;
-			if ((open_flag & O_EXCL)) {
-				if (!dentry->d_inode)
-					goto out;
-			} else if (!dentry->d_inode) {
-				goto out;
-			} else if ((open_flag & O_TRUNC) &&
-				   d_is_reg(dentry)) {
-				goto out;
-			}
-			/* will fail later, go on to get the right error */
-		}
+	}
+	if (create_error && !dentry->d_inode) {
+		error = create_error;
+		goto out;
 	}
 looked_up:
 	path->dentry = dentry;

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

queue-4.4/get_rock_ridge_filename-handle-malformed-nm-entries.patch queue-4.4/atomic_open-fix-the-handling-of-create_error.patch