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-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c33
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 2826db3..b52bc68 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -727,25 +727,22 @@ static int follow_automount(struct path *path, unsigned flags,
if ((flags & LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) && !(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT))
return -EISDIR; /* we actually want to stop here */
- /*
- * We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat and they've
- * set AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW - unless they're stat'ing a directory and
- * appended a '/' to the name.
+ /* We don't want to mount if someone's just doing a stat -
+ * unless they're stat'ing a directory and appended a '/' to
+ * the name.
+ *
+ * We do, however, want to mount if someone wants to open or
+ * create a file of any type under the mountpoint, wants to
+ * traverse through the mountpoint or wants to open the
+ * mounted directory. Also, autofs may mark negative dentries
+ * as being automount points. These will need the attentions
+ * of the daemon to instantiate them before they can be used.
*/
- if (!(flags & LOOKUP_FOLLOW)) {
- /* We do, however, want to mount if someone wants to open or
- * create a file of any type under the mountpoint, wants to
- * traverse through the mountpoint or wants to open the mounted
- * directory.
- * Also, autofs may mark negative dentries as being automount
- * points. These will need the attentions of the daemon to
- * instantiate them before they can be used.
- */
- if (!(flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY |
- LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE)) &&
- path->dentry->d_inode)
- return -EISDIR;
- }
+ if (!(flags & (LOOKUP_PARENT | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY |
+ LOOKUP_OPEN | LOOKUP_CREATE)) &&
+ path->dentry->d_inode)
+ return -EISDIR;
+
current->total_link_count++;
if (current->total_link_count >= 40)
return -ELOOP;
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