should_follow_link(): validate ->d_seq after having decided to follow

commit a7f77542 upstream.

... otherwise d_is_symlink() above might have nothing to do with
the inode value we've got.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>

fs/namei.c

@@ -1714,6 +1714,11 @@ static inline int should_follow_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *link,
 		return 0;
 	if (!follow)
 		return 0;
+	/* make sure that d_is_symlink above matches inode */
+	if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
+		if (read_seqcount_retry(&link->dentry->d_seq, seq))
+			return -ECHILD;
+	}
 	return pick_link(nd, link, inode, seq);
 }