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Subject[PATCH] symlink: allow an empty target string
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POSIX only states that ENOENT should be returned
if an empty string is specified for the link name.
In fact it states the link target...
"shall be treated only as a character string and
shall not be validated as a pathname".

Signed-off-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
---
fs/namei.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 43a97ee..26dd264 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3533,12 +3533,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(symlinkat, const char __user *, oldname,
int, newdfd, const char __user *, newname)
{
int error;
+ int empty;
struct filename *from;
struct dentry *dentry;
struct path path;
unsigned int lookup_flags = 0;

- from = getname(oldname);
+ from = getname_flags(oldname, LOOKUP_EMPTY, &empty);
if (IS_ERR(from))
return PTR_ERR(from);
retry:
--
1.7.6.4
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