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Commit 7813b94a authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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vfs: rename 'do_follow_link' to 'should_follow_link' 



Al points out that the do_follow_link() helper function really is
misnamed - it's about whether we should try to follow a symlink or not,
not about actually doing the following.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 206b1d09

fs/namei.c

+2 −2
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@@ -1267,7 +1267,7 @@ static void terminate_walk(struct nameidata *nd) 
 * so we keep a cache of "no, this doesn't need follow_link"

 * for the common case.

 */

static inline int do_follow_link(struct inode *inode, int follow)

static inline int should_follow_link(struct inode *inode, int follow)

{

	if (unlikely(!(inode->i_opflags & IOP_NOFOLLOW))) {

		if (likely(inode->i_op->follow_link))
@@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path, 
		terminate_walk(nd);

		return -ENOENT;

	}

	if (do_follow_link(inode, follow)) {

	if (should_follow_link(inode, follow)) {

		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {

			if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {

				terminate_walk(nd);