This allows this code to be shared between O_CREAT and plain opens. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
@@ -2384,7 +2384,7 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
if (error)
return ERR_PTR(error);
error = -EISDIR;
- if (S_ISDIR(nd->inode->i_mode))
+ if ((open_flag & O_CREAT) && S_ISDIR(nd->inode->i_mode))
goto exit;
error = -ENOTDIR;
if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && !nd->inode->i_op->lookup)