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authorOleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>2016-08-20 21:34:25 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-21 14:03:38 (GMT)
commit3a77df1180acf1cbe2276a0cbe91e5d07fbf3c47 (patch)
tree6fe98aed23ca479e2b8358e2e19d21f1b302fa2b /drivers/staging/lustre
parent4cae780e54db3a8d75752bda812547db9f1c1c45 (diff)
downloadlinux-3a77df1180acf1cbe2276a0cbe91e5d07fbf3c47.tar.xz
staging/lustre: Always return EEXIST on mkdir for existing names
if the name already exists, but we don't have write permissions in the parent, force talking to the MDS to determine what more sensical error code to return. This also happens to fix matlab and other such programs that assume that EEXIST is the only valid error code for mkdir of an existing directory. Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/lustre')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c
index ee5a42e..d13debb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c
@@ -606,8 +606,12 @@ static struct dentry *ll_lookup_nd(struct inode *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
CDEBUG(D_VFSTRACE, "VFS Op:name=%pd, dir="DFID"(%p),flags=%u\n",
dentry, PFID(ll_inode2fid(parent)), parent, flags);
- /* Optimize away (CREATE && !OPEN). Let .create handle the race. */
- if ((flags & LOOKUP_CREATE) && !(flags & LOOKUP_OPEN))
+ /* Optimize away (CREATE && !OPEN). Let .create handle the race.
+ * but only if we have write permissions there, otherwise we need
+ * to proceed with lookup. LU-4185
+ */
+ if ((flags & LOOKUP_CREATE) && !(flags & LOOKUP_OPEN) &&
+ (inode_permission(parent, MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC) == 0))
return NULL;
if (flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT|LOOKUP_OPEN|LOOKUP_CREATE))