From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> After a pure jump ("/" or procfs-style symlink) we don't need to hold the link anymore. link_path_walk() dropped it if such case had been detected, lookup_last/do_last() (i.e. old trailing_symlink()) left it on the stack - it ended up calling terminate_walk() shortly anyway, which would've purged the entire stack. Do it in get_link() itself instead. Simpler logics that way... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 888b1e5b994e..46cd3e5cb052 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1154,7 +1154,9 @@ const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd) } else { res = get(dentry, inode, &last->done); } - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(res)) + if (!res) + goto all_done; + if (IS_ERR(res)) return res; } if (*res == '/') { @@ -1164,9 +1166,11 @@ const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd) while (unlikely(*++res == '/')) ; } - if (!*res) - res = NULL; - return res; + if (*res) + return res; +all_done: // pure jump + put_link(nd); + return NULL; } /* @@ -2211,11 +2215,7 @@ static int link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) if (IS_ERR(s)) return PTR_ERR(s); - err = 0; - if (unlikely(!s)) { - /* jumped */ - put_link(nd); - } else { + if (likely(s)) { nd->stack[nd->depth - 1].name = name; name = s; continue; -- 2.11.0