[PATCH] landlock: opened file never has a negative dentry

Al Viro viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk
Sun Jun 15 00:30:11 UTC 2025


[don't really care which tree that goes through; right now it's
in viro/vfs.git #work.misc, but if somebody prefers to grab it
through a different tree, just say so]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 security/landlock/syscalls.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/landlock/syscalls.c b/security/landlock/syscalls.c
index 33eafb71e4f3..0116e9f93ffe 100644
--- a/security/landlock/syscalls.c
+++ b/security/landlock/syscalls.c
@@ -303,7 +303,6 @@ static int get_path_from_fd(const s32 fd, struct path *const path)
 	if ((fd_file(f)->f_op == &ruleset_fops) ||
 	    (fd_file(f)->f_path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_INTERNAL) ||
 	    (fd_file(f)->f_path.dentry->d_sb->s_flags & SB_NOUSER) ||
-	    d_is_negative(fd_file(f)->f_path.dentry) ||
 	    IS_PRIVATE(d_backing_inode(fd_file(f)->f_path.dentry)))
 		return -EBADFD;
 
-- 
2.39.5




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