5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
[ Upstream commit fe91e078b60d1beabf5cef4a37c848457a6d2dfb ]
... allowing any ->lookup() return value to be passed to it.
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown neil@brown.name Signed-off-by: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/open.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index f1c2ec6790bb3..2da364e942741 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -886,18 +886,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(finish_open); * finish_no_open - finish ->atomic_open() without opening the file * * @file: file pointer - * @dentry: dentry or NULL (as returned from ->lookup()) + * @dentry: dentry, ERR_PTR(-E...) or NULL (as returned from ->lookup()) * - * This can be used to set the result of a successful lookup in ->atomic_open(). + * This can be used to set the result of a lookup in ->atomic_open(). * * NB: unlike finish_open() this function does consume the dentry reference and * the caller need not dput() it. * - * Returns "0" which must be the return value of ->atomic_open() after having - * called this function. + * Returns 0 or -E..., which must be the return value of ->atomic_open() after + * having called this function. */ int finish_no_open(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry) { + if (IS_ERR(dentry)) + return PTR_ERR(dentry); file->f_path.dentry = dentry; return 0; }