From ac278a9c505092dd82077a2446af8f9fc0d9c095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:09:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fix LOOKUP_FOLLOW on automount "symlinks" Make sure that automount "symlinks" are followed regardless of LOOKUP_FOLLOW; it should have no effect on them. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file 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 @@ -822,6 +822,17 @@ fail: return PTR_ERR(dentry); } +/* + * 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 @@ -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; -- 2.34.1