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

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Message-ID: <20120604181144.GK23701@moon>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:11:44 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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 04, 2012 at 10:59:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Linus! This patch fixed it.

Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
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