Commit 1c9f5e06 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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follow_automount() doesn't need the entire nameidata 



Only the address of ->total_link_count and the flags.
And fix an off-by-one is ELOOP detection - make it
consistent with symlink following, where we check if
the pre-increment value has reached 40, rather than
check the post-increment one.

[kudos to Christian Brauner for spotted braino]

Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 25e195aa

fs/namei.c

+5 −5
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(follow_up); 
 * - return -EISDIR to tell follow_managed() to stop and return the path we

 *   were called with.

 */

static int follow_automount(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd)

static int follow_automount(struct path *path, int *count, unsigned lookup_flags)

{

	struct dentry *dentry = path->dentry;
@@ -1223,13 +1223,12 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd) 
	 * as being automount points.  These will need the attentions

	 * of the daemon to instantiate them before they can be used.

	 */

	if (!(nd->flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY |

	if (!(lookup_flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY |

			   LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE | LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT)) &&

	    dentry->d_inode)

		return -EISDIR;



	nd->total_link_count++;

	if (nd->total_link_count >= 40)

	if (count && (*count)++ >= MAXSYMLINKS)

		return -ELOOP;



	return finish_automount(dentry->d_op->d_automount(path), path);
@@ -1290,7 +1289,8 @@ static int follow_managed(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd) 


		/* Handle an automount point */

		if (flags & DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT) {

			ret = follow_automount(path, nd);

			ret = follow_automount(path, &nd->total_link_count,

						nd->flags);

			if (ret < 0)

				break;

			continue;

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