When passed an empty filename, lookup_name() returns the inode of
the parent directory, unless the parent is the root in which case
the st_dev doesn't match and lo_find() returns NULL. This is
because lookup_name() passes AT_EMPTY_PATH down to fstatat() or
statx().
This behavior doesn't quite make sense because users of lookup_name()
then pass the name to unlinkat(), renameat() or renameat2(), all of
which will always fail on empty names.
Drop AT_EMPTY_PATH from the flags in lookup_name() so that it has
the consistent behavior of "returning an existing child inode or
NULL" for all directories.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <
20210312141003.819108-2-groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
return NULL;
}
- res = do_statx(lo, dir->fd, name, &attr,
- AT_EMPTY_PATH | AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, &mnt_id);
+ res = do_statx(lo, dir->fd, name, &attr, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, &mnt_id);
lo_inode_put(lo, &dir);
if (res == -1) {
return NULL;