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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-08-14 14:14:12 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-08-14 14:14:12 +0400
commit397f09977ea350a20f20b415a9313cc790137742 (patch)
tree0e44f2f3e5804bd5c0c6f644785006b7225e3c94 /fs/namei.c
parent6356bb0ad6525dae93c06478a098ed3848e9ab01 (diff)
parenta4b4bedce880046feeb5b206392960f395ed02ad (diff)
downloadlinux-397f09977ea350a20f20b415a9313cc790137742.tar.xz
Merge tag 'amd_f15_m30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp into x86/ras
Pull AMD F15h, model 0x30 and later enablement stuff, more specifically EDAC support, from Borislav Petkov. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 8b61d103a8a7..89a612e392eb 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3671,15 +3671,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(linkat, int, olddfd, const char __user *, oldname,
if ((flags & ~(AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW | AT_EMPTY_PATH)) != 0)
return -EINVAL;
/*
- * To use null names we require CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
- * This ensures that not everyone will be able to create
- * handlink using the passed filedescriptor.
+ * Using empty names is equivalent to using AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW
+ * on /proc/self/fd/<fd>.
*/
- if (flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH) {
- if (!capable(CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH))
- return -ENOENT;
+ if (flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH)
how = LOOKUP_EMPTY;
- }
if (flags & AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW)
how |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW;