[PATCH 5/6] Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk

David Howells
2010-07-22T17:59:20Z

Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk in favour
of using d_automount().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

fs/namei.c | 17 +++--------------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index fcec3c6..86068a2 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -845,17 +845,6 @@ 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.
@@ -975,7 +964,8 @@ 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;
@@ -1888,8 +1878,7 @@ 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;