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| author | Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> | 2010-02-16 18:09:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-03-15 08:49:32 -0700 |
| commit | 9922594935c0782f739086bc13b520d1b43cfffc (patch) | |
| tree | 84bf70cea844d5261f2aeaf762846e0a07ae2912 /fs | |
| parent | 7f5e918e62cbc9ac27c2f47d3c3dd4b86f67ff0e (diff) | |
fix LOOKUP_FOLLOW on automount "symlinks"
commit ac278a9c505092dd82077a2446af8f9fc0d9c095 upstream.
Make sure that automount "symlinks" are followed regardless of LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
it should have no effect on them.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index a2b3c28a499..b0afbd427be 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -829,6 +829,17 @@ fail: } /* + * This is a temporary kludge to deal with "automount" symlinks; proper + * solution is to trigger them on follow_mount(), so that do_lookup() + * would DTRT. To be killed before 2.6.34-final. + */ +static inline int follow_on_final(struct inode *inode, unsigned lookup_flags) +{ + return inode && unlikely(inode->i_op->follow_link) && + ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)); +} + +/* * Name resolution. * This is the basic name resolution function, turning a pathname into * the final dentry. We expect 'base' to be positive and a directory. @@ -964,8 +975,7 @@ last_component: if (err) break; inode = next.dentry->d_inode; - if ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW) - && inode && inode->i_op->follow_link) { + if (follow_on_final(inode, lookup_flags)) { err = do_follow_link(&next, nd); if (err) goto return_err; |