linux-kernel - Re: Probleam reading fdinfo symlinks after 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:59:24 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LINUXFS-ML <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: Probleam reading fdinfo symlinks after 30a08bf2d31d275c6fc71dd1811342777e95c831

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.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.

            Linus

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