When passed an empty filename, lookup_name() returns the inode of
the parent directory, unless the parent is the root in which case
the st_dev doesn't match and lo_find() returns NULL. This is
because lookup_name() passes AT_EMPTY_PATH down to fstatat() or
statx().
This behavior doesn't quite make sense because users of lookup_name()
then pass the name to unlinkat(), renameat() or renameat2(), all of
which will always fail on empty names.
Drop AT_EMPTY_PATH from the flags in lookup_name() so that it has
the consistent behavior of "returning an existing child inode or
NULL" for all directories.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
---
tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
index fc7e1b1e8e2b..27a6c636dcaf 100644
--- a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
+++ b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
@@ -1308,8 +1308,7 @@ static struct lo_inode *lookup_name(fuse_req_t req,
fuse_ino_t parent,
return NULL;
}
- res = do_statx(lo, dir->fd, name, &attr,
- AT_EMPTY_PATH | AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, &mnt_id);
+ res = do_statx(lo, dir->fd, name, &attr, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, &mnt_id);
lo_inode_put(lo, &dir);
if (res == -1) {
return NULL;