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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] fs: avoid fdput() after failed fdget() in kernel_read_file_from_fd()
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 7:13 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 06:49:50AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 01:43:05PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > > diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> > > index 06b4c550af5d..ea24bdce939d 100644
> > > --- a/fs/exec.c
> > > +++ b/fs/exec.c
> > > @@ -1021,8 +1021,8 @@ int kernel_read_file_from_fd(int fd, void **buf, loff_t *size, loff_t max_size,
> > > goto out;
> > >
> > > ret = kernel_read_file(f.file, buf, size, max_size, id);
> > > -out:
> > > fdput(f);
> > > +out:
> > > return ret;
> >
> > Incidentally, why is that thing exported?
>
> Both kernel_read_file_from_fd() and kernel_read_file() are exported
> because they have users, however kernel_read_file() only has security
> stuff as a user. Do we want to get rid of the lsm hook for it?

Alright, yeah just the export needs to be removed. I have a patch
series dealing with these callers so will add it to my queue.

Luis

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