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-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 5bc6f3d1dc8a..cf362dc9d1fd 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2964,8 +2964,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(mknodat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, umode_t, mode,
struct path path;
int error;
- if (S_ISDIR(mode))
- return -EPERM;
+ error = may_mknod(mode);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
dentry = user_path_create(dfd, filename, &path, 0);
if (IS_ERR(dentry))
@@ -2973,9 +2974,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(mknodat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, umode_t, mode,
if (!IS_POSIXACL(path.dentry->d_inode))
mode &= ~current_umask();
- error = may_mknod(mode);
- if (error)
- goto out_dput;
error = mnt_want_write(path.mnt);
if (error)
goto out_dput;