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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 8 |
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; |