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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 94a5e60779f9..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;
@@ -1736,8 +1746,7 @@ do_last:
if (nd.root.mnt)
path_put(&nd.root);
if (!IS_ERR(filp)) {
- error = ima_path_check(&filp->f_path, filp->f_mode &
- (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC));
+ error = ima_file_check(filp, acc_mode);
if (error) {
fput(filp);
filp = ERR_PTR(error);
@@ -1797,8 +1806,7 @@ ok:
}
filp = nameidata_to_filp(&nd);
if (!IS_ERR(filp)) {
- error = ima_path_check(&filp->f_path, filp->f_mode &
- (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC));
+ error = ima_file_check(filp, acc_mode);
if (error) {
fput(filp);
filp = ERR_PTR(error);