readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookups

Since the commit below which added O_PATH support to the *at() calls, the
error return for readlink/readlinkat for the empty pathname has switched
from ENOENT to EINVAL:

commit 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d
Author: Al Viro <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun Mar 13 15:56:26 2011 -0400

readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames

This is both unexpected for userspace and makes readlink/readlinkat
inconsistant with all other interfaces; and inconsistant with our stated
return for these pathnames.

As the readlinkat call does not have a flags parameter we cannot use the
AT_EMPTY_PATH approach used in the other calls. Therefore expose whether
the original path is infact entry via a new user_path_at_empty() path
lookup function. Use this to determine whether to default to EINVAL or
ENOENT for failures.

Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817187

[[e-mail]: remove unused getname_flags()]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[e-mail]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>
Cc: Al Viro <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>

fs/namei.c

···
 	return retval;
 }
 
-static char *getname_flags(const char __user * filename, int flags)
+static char *getname_flags(const char __user *filename, int flags, int *empty)
 {
 	char *tmp, *result;
 
···
 
 		result = tmp;
 		if (retval < 0) {
+			if (retval == -ENOENT && empty)
+				*empty = 1;
 			if (retval != -ENOENT || !(flags & LOOKUP_EMPTY)) {
 				__putname(tmp);
 				result = ERR_PTR(retval);
···
 
 char *getname(const char __user * filename)
 {
-	return getname_flags(filename, 0);
+	return getname_flags(filename, 0, 0);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
···
 	return __lookup_hash(&this, base, NULL);
 }
 
-int user_path_at(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
-		 struct path *path)
+int user_path_at_empty(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
+		 struct path *path, int *empty)
 {
 	struct nameidata nd;
-	char *tmp = getname_flags(name, flags);
+	char *tmp = getname_flags(name, flags, empty);
 	int err = PTR_ERR(tmp);
 	if (!IS_ERR(tmp)) {
 
···
 			*path = nd.path;
 	}
 	return err;
+}
+
+int user_path_at(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
+		 struct path *path)
+{
+	return user_path_at_empty(dfd, name, flags, path, 0);
 }
 
 static int user_path_parent(int dfd, const char __user *path,

fs/stat.c

···
 {
 	struct path path;
 	int error;
+	int empty = 0;
 
 	if (bufsiz <= 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	error = user_path_at(dfd, pathname, LOOKUP_EMPTY, &path);
+	error = user_path_at_empty(dfd, pathname, LOOKUP_EMPTY, &path, &empty);
 	if (!error) {
 		struct inode *inode = path.dentry->d_inode;
 
-		error = -EINVAL;
+		error = empty ? -ENOENT : -EINVAL;
 		if (inode->i_op->readlink) {
 			error = security_inode_readlink(path.dentry);
 			if (!error) {

include/linux/namei.h

···
 #define LOOKUP_EMPTY		0x4000
 
 extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *);
+extern int user_path_at_empty(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *, int *empty);
 
 #define user_path(name, path) user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, path)
 #define user_lpath(name, path) user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, 0, path)