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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-09 23:04:47 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-14 09:15:27 -0400
commit5b6ca027d85b7438c84b78a54ccdc2e53f2909cd (patch)
treee35b870101fbc6a2ea6e0399429d9c23707697f3 /kernel/sysctl_binary.c
parent5a18fff2090c3af830d699c8ccb230498a1e37e5 (diff)
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reduce vfs_path_lookup() to do_path_lookup()
New lookup flag: LOOKUP_ROOT. nd->root is set (and held) by caller, path_init() starts walking from that place and all pathname resolution machinery never drops nd->root if that flag is set. That turns vfs_path_lookup() into a special case of do_path_lookup() *and* gets us down to 3 callers of link_path_walk(), making it finally feasible to rip the handling of trailing symlink out of link_path_walk(). That will not only simply the living hell out of it, but make life much simpler for unionfs merge. Trailing symlink handling will become iterative, which is a good thing for stack footprint in a lot of situations as well. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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