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    atomic_open(): fix the handling of create_error · 10c64cea
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    * if we have a hashed negative dentry and either CREAT|EXCL on
    r/o filesystem, or CREAT|TRUNC on r/o filesystem, or CREAT|EXCL
    with failing may_o_create(), we should fail with EROFS or the
    error may_o_create() has returned, but not ENOENT.  Which is what
    the current code ends up returning.
    
    * if we have CREAT|TRUNC hitting a regular file on a read-only
    filesystem, we can't fail with EROFS here.  At the very least,
    not until we'd done follow_managed() - we might have a writable
    file (or a device, for that matter) bound on top of that one.
    Moreover, the code downstream will see that O_TRUNC and attempt
    to grab the write access (*after* following possible mount), so
    if we really should fail with EROFS, it will happen.  No need
    to do that inside atomic_open().
    
    The real logics is much simpler than what the current code is
    trying to do - if we decided to go for simple lookup, ended
    up with a negative dentry *and* had create_error set, fail with
    create_error.  No matter whether we'd got that negative dentry
    from lookup_real() or had found it in dcache.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6+
    Acked-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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