From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 39dd56f5171f..6721c5f7e9d5 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -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; -- 2.11.0