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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: Probleam reading fdinfo symlinks after
 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:11:44 +0400
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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>