[PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity
Somebody had put struct nameidata in stack frame of link_path_walk().
Unfortunately, there are certain realities to deal with:
* It's in the middle of recursion. Depth is equal to the nesting
depth of symlinks, i.e. up to 8.
* struct namiedata is, even if one discards the intent junk,
at least 12 pointers + 5 ints.
* moreover, adding a stack frame is not free in that situation.
* there are fs methods called on top of that, and they also have
stack footprint.
* kernel stack is not infinite.
The thing is, even if one chooses to deal with -ESTALE that way (and it's
one hell of an overkill), the only thing that needs to be preserved is
vfsmount + dentry, not the entire struct nameidata.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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