From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
when cookie is NULL, put_link() is equivalent to path_put(), so
as soon as we'd set last->cookie to NULL, we can bump nd->depth and
let the normal logics in terminate_walk() to take care of cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namei.c | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index f311f03..678aeef 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -904,27 +904,23 @@ const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd)
last->link = nd->link;
last->cookie = NULL;
+ nd->depth++;
cond_resched();
touch_atime(&last->link);
error = security_inode_follow_link(dentry);
- res = ERR_PTR(error);
if (error)
- goto out;
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
nd->last_type = LAST_BIND;
res = inode->i_link;
if (!res) {
res = inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, &last->cookie);
- if (IS_ERR(res)) {
-out:
- path_put(&last->link);
- return res;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(res))
+ last->cookie = NULL;
}
- nd->depth++;
return res;
}
--
2.1.4
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