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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2012-01-30 21:24:59 -0800 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2012-02-01 19:21:38 -0800 |
| commit | 4e75732035d7e97e001bdf6e3149d3967c0221de (patch) | |
| tree | 7b67c8208479ac7bde5f87d81fb0b44cb1cbfb3b /fs | |
| parent | 60f126d93b210ae708e2a5bb4a3be2121831f2a0 (diff) | |
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sysctl: Don't call sysctl_follow_link unless we are a link.
There are no functional changes. Just code motion to make it
clear that we don't follow a link between sysctl roots unless the
directory entry actually is a link.
Suggested-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index e5601dc24088..a7708b7c957f 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -451,10 +451,12 @@ static struct dentry *proc_sys_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, if (!p) goto out; - ret = sysctl_follow_link(&h, &p, current->nsproxy); - err = ERR_PTR(ret); - if (ret) - goto out; + if (S_ISLNK(p->mode)) { + ret = sysctl_follow_link(&h, &p, current->nsproxy); + err = ERR_PTR(ret); + if (ret) + goto out; + } err = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->i_sb, h ? h : head, p); @@ -601,10 +603,12 @@ static int proc_sys_link_fill_cache(struct file *filp, void *dirent, int err, ret = 0; head = sysctl_head_grab(head); - /* It is not an error if we can not follow the link ignore it */ - err = sysctl_follow_link(&head, &table, current->nsproxy); - if (err) - goto out; + if (S_ISLNK(table->mode)) { + /* It is not an error if we can not follow the link ignore it */ + err = sysctl_follow_link(&head, &table, current->nsproxy); + if (err) + goto out; + } ret = proc_sys_fill_cache(filp, dirent, filldir, head, table); out: @@ -950,10 +954,6 @@ static int sysctl_follow_link(struct ctl_table_header **phead, struct ctl_dir *dir; int ret; - /* Get out quickly if not a link */ - if (!S_ISLNK((*pentry)->mode)) - return 0; - ret = 0; spin_lock(&sysctl_lock); root = (*pentry)->data; |