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Al Viro authored
[ Upstream commit c80567c8 ] ... into returning a positive to path_openat(), which would interpret that as "symlink had been encountered" and proceed to corrupt memory, etc. It can only happen due to a bug in some ->open() instance or in some LSM hook, etc., so we report any such event *and* make sure it doesn't trick us into further unpleasantness. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6+, at least Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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