Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk
Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk in favour
of using d_automount().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index dc50bfb..61995fb 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1342,17 +1342,6 @@
}
/*
- * 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.
@@ -1490,7 +1479,8 @@
err = do_lookup(nd, &this, &next, &inode);
if (err)
break;
- if (follow_on_final(inode, lookup_flags)) {
+ if (inode && unlikely(inode->i_op->follow_link) &&
+ (lookup_flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) {
if (nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu_maybe(nd, next.dentry))
return -ECHILD;
BUG_ON(inode != next.dentry->d_inode);
@@ -2543,8 +2533,7 @@
struct inode *linki = link.dentry->d_inode;
void *cookie;
error = -ELOOP;
- /* S_ISDIR part is a temporary automount kludge */
- if (!(nd.flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW) && !S_ISDIR(linki->i_mode))
+ if (!(nd.flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW))
goto exit_dput;
if (count++ == 32)
goto exit_dput;