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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-02-28 19:23:06 -0800 |
commit | 47871889c601d8199c51a4086f77eebd77c29b0b (patch) | |
tree | 40cdcac3bff0ee40cc33dcca61d0577cdf965f77 /fs/namei.c | |
parent | c16cc0b464b8876cfd57ce1c1dbcb6f9a6a0bce3 (diff) | |
parent | 30ff056c42c665b9ea535d8515890857ae382540 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-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 d62fdc875f22..a4855af776a8 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -823,6 +823,17 @@ 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. @@ -942,8 +953,7 @@ 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; |