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Commit 7b54c165 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 47b3bc90

fs/namei.c

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@@ -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)