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authorDanilo Krummrich <danilokrummrich@dk-develop.de>2018-04-11 01:31:41 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-11 19:28:33 +0200
commit835b94e05c92e6e8df48112770e624cee192a057 (patch)
tree919e263799d0a5c3d224bb578ad86353c7f58cb1 /fs/proc
parentfs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: fix potential page fault while unregistering sysctl table (diff)
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fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c: remove redundant link check in proc_sys_link_fill_cache()
proc_sys_link_fill_cache() does not need to check whether we're called for a link - it's already done by scan(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228013506.4915-2-danilokrummrich@dk-develop.de Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <danilokrummrich@dk-develop.de> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 7da10e595297..4654fc3c246f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -712,12 +712,9 @@ static bool proc_sys_link_fill_cache(struct file *file,
if (IS_ERR(head))
return false;
- if (S_ISLNK(table->mode)) {
- /* It is not an error if we can not follow the link ignore it */
- int err = sysctl_follow_link(&head, &table);
- if (err)
- goto out;
- }
+ /* It is not an error if we can not follow the link ignore it */
+ if (sysctl_follow_link(&head, &table))
+ goto out;
ret = proc_sys_fill_cache(file, ctx, head, table);
out: