linux/fs/stat.c
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) 59372bbf3a statx: correct error handling of NULL pathname
The change in commit 1e2f82d1e9 ("statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path
support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH") to error on a NULL pathname to
statx() is inconsistent.

It results in the error EINVAL for a NULL pathname.  Other system calls
with similar APIs (fchownat(), fstatat(), linkat()), return EFAULT.

The solution is simply to remove the EINVAL check.  As I already pointed
out in [1], user_path_at*() and filename_lookup() will handle the NULL
pathname as per the other APIs, to correctly produce the error EFAULT.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/26/561

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-04-27 10:45:09 -07:00

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