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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 80e239d685c..fc12ad53ecd 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -781,25 +781,22 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags, if ((flags & LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) && !(flags & LOOKUP_CONTINUE)) return -EISDIR; /* we actually want to stop here */ - /* - * We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat and they've - * set AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW - unless they're stat'ing a directory and - * appended a '/' to the name. + /* We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat - + * unless they're stat'ing a directory and appended a '/' to + * the name. + * + * We do, however, want to mount if someone wants to open or + * create a file of any type under the mountpoint, wants to + * traverse through the mountpoint or wants to open the + * mounted directory. Also, autofs may mark negative dentries + * as being automount points. These will need the attentions + * of the daemon to instantiate them before they can be used. */ - if (!(flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) { - /* We do, however, want to mount if someone wants to open or - * create a file of any type under the mountpoint, wants to - * traverse through the mountpoint or wants to open the mounted - * directory. - * Also, autofs may mark negative dentries as being automount - * points. These will need the attentions of the daemon to - * instantiate them before they can be used. - */ - if (!(flags & (LOOKUP_CONTINUE | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY | - LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE)) && - path->dentry->d_inode) - return -EISDIR; - } + if (!(flags & (LOOKUP_CONTINUE | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY | + LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE)) && + path->dentry->d_inode) + return -EISDIR; + current->total_link_count++; if (current->total_link_count >= 40) return -ELOOP; |