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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-03-08 09:03:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-03-08 09:03:07 -0800 |
| commit | 7b54c165a0c012edbaeaa73c5c87cb73721eb580 (patch) | |
| tree | c44ffe65534057860a73226d28dac1d4e6ea9ac7 /fs | |
| parent | 47b3bc907328db968bc9b43c41f48f8d1e140750 (diff) | |
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vfs: don't BUG_ON() if following a /proc fd pseudo-symlink results in a symlink
It's "normal" - it can happen if the file descriptor you followed was
opened with O_NOFOLLOW.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 961bc1268366..57ae9c8c66bf 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -689,8 +689,6 @@ void nd_jump_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path) nd->path = *path; nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode; nd->flags |= LOOKUP_JUMPED; - - BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link); } static inline void put_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *link, void *cookie) |