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rcu pathwalk: prevent bogus hard errors from may_lookup()

If lazy call of ->permission() returns a hard error, check that
try_to_unlazy() succeeds before returning it. That both makes
life easier for ->permission() instances and closes the race
in ENOTDIR handling - it is possible that positive d_can_lookup()
seen in link_path_walk() applies to the state *after* unlink() +
mkdir(), while nd->inode matches the state prior to that.

Normally seeing e.g. EACCES from permission check in rcu pathwalk
means that with some timings non-rcu pathwalk would've run into
the same; however, running into a non-executable regular file
in the middle of a pathname would not get to permission check -
it would fail with ENOTDIR instead.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Al Viro cdb67fde 583340de

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fs/namei.c
··· 1717 1717 { 1718 1718 if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) { 1719 1719 int err = inode_permission(idmap, nd->inode, MAY_EXEC|MAY_NOT_BLOCK); 1720 - if (err != -ECHILD || !try_to_unlazy(nd)) 1720 + if (!err) // success, keep going 1721 + return 0; 1722 + if (!try_to_unlazy(nd)) 1723 + return -ECHILD; // redo it all non-lazy 1724 + if (err != -ECHILD) // hard error 1721 1725 return err; 1722 1726 } 1723 1727 return inode_permission(idmap, nd->inode, MAY_EXEC);