From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
LINUXFS-ML <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: Probleam reading fdinfo symlinks after 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:11:44 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120604181144.GK23701@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwWpxvPGT2Gopp=y8_=CAsGoted4sg9_+b8yfkEqjLBYw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:59:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote:
> >
> > just tried 3.5-rc1 out and found that with commit
> > 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831 the reading
> > of fdinfo files returns "Too many levels of symbolic links"
> > error.
>
> Ugh. The fdinfo files aren't symlinks at all, and share the revalidate function.
>
> My bad. The fix isn't pretty, but still better than reverting things.
> This should fix it.
Thanks Linus! This patch fixed it.
Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-04 15:14 Probleam reading fdinfo symlinks after 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-06-04 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-04 18:11 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
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