Merge tag 'v4.0-rc1' into locking/core, to refresh the tree before merging new changes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index ad8798e26be9..c7f9b733406d 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -794,8 +794,14 @@ exit:
 
 struct file *open_exec(const char *name)
 {
-	struct filename tmp = { .name = name };
-	return do_open_execat(AT_FDCWD, &tmp, 0);
+	struct filename *filename = getname_kernel(name);
+	struct file *f = ERR_CAST(filename);
+
+	if (!IS_ERR(filename)) {
+		f = do_open_execat(AT_FDCWD, filename, 0);
+		putname(filename);
+	}
+	return f;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(open_exec);