complete_walk() returns either ECHILD or ESTALE. do_last() turns this into
ECHILD unconditionally. If not in RCU mode, this error will reach userspace
which is complete nonsense.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
/* sayonara */
error = complete_walk(nd);
if (error)
- return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD);
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
error = -ENOTDIR;
if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) {