Don't reset ->total_link_count on nested calls of vfs_path_lookup()

we already zero it on outermost set_nameidata(), so initialization in
path_init() is pointless and wrong.  The same DoS exists on pre-4.2
kernels, but there a slightly different fix will be needed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d84d7c7..0c3974c 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1996,7 +1996,6 @@ static const char *path_init(struct nameidata *nd, unsigned flags)
 	nd->last_type = LAST_ROOT; /* if there are only slashes... */
 	nd->flags = flags | LOOKUP_JUMPED | LOOKUP_PARENT;
 	nd->depth = 0;
-	nd->total_link_count = 0;
 	if (flags & LOOKUP_ROOT) {
 		struct dentry *root = nd->root.dentry;
 		struct inode *inode = root->d_inode;