On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 07:15:21PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk in favour > of using d_automount(). > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > fs/namei.c | 17 +++-------------- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c > index c50b9d7..86421f9 100644 > --- a/fs/namei.c > +++ b/fs/namei.c > @@ -861,17 +861,6 @@ 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. > @@ -991,7 +980,8 @@ last_component: > if (err) > break; > inode = next.dentry->d_inode; > - if (follow_on_final(inode, lookup_flags)) { > + if (inode && unlikely(inode->i_op->follow_link) && > + (lookup_flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) { > err = do_follow_link(&next, nd); > if (err) > goto return_err; > @@ -1882,8 +1872,7 @@ reval: > struct inode *inode = path.dentry->d_inode; > void *cookie; > error = -ELOOP; > - /* S_ISDIR part is a temporary automount kludge */ > - if (!(nd.flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) > + if (!(nd.flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) > goto exit_dput; > if (count++ == 32) > goto exit_dput; While you're removing kludges, I bet you can also remove this from __follow_link(): if (path->mnt != nd->mnt) { path_to_nameidata(path, nd); dget(dentry); } mntget(path->mnt); And replace with: if (path->mnt == nd->mnt) mntget(path->mnt); This reverts the non-helper-function parts of 051d381259eb57d6074d02a6ba6e90e744f1a29f, which breaks union mounts. -VAL -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html