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From: Kjell Braden <afflux-7cISTWZqsW8RLla1DLYS2Q@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cifs: ensure that cifs_get_root() only traverses directories
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:54:06 +0100
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On 2013-02-03 17:49, Kjell Braden wrote:
>    let me add that mounting paths below symlinks worked with the old path
> walking before commit fec11dd9a0109fe52fd631e5c510778d6cbff6cc.

Sorry, forgot specifics:

Consider the following tree:

   /srv/symtest
   /srv/symtest/dir
   /srv/symtest/dir/subdir/
   /srv/symtest/link -> dir/
   /srv/symtest/abslink -> /

this works:
    # mount.cifs //smbsrv/symtest/dir/subdir/ /mnt/

this causes oops but worked before fec11dd9a0:
    # mount.cifs //smbsrv/symtest/link/subdir/ /mnt/

this fails with ENOTDIR, both before fec11dd9a0 and after:
    # mount.cifs //smbsrv/symtest/abslink/srv/symtest/dir/subdir/ /mnt/