Re: [git pull] VFS - the first pile

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Mar 16 2011 - 03:21:41 EST


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:51:03AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 05:19:17PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > I think there's something not quite right in this tree. xfstests 005
> > (nested symlink test) fails on both ext4 and XFS with the following:
>
> Yeah... Brown paperbag time - it's actually a missing piece that
> got glued with a commit a bit later in queue ;-/ I've dropped it
> into for-linus for the morning push; in the meanwhile, the patch is
> below.

BTW, you want to update 005 in there - we are back to correct "maximum
is 40 symlinks total, 8 levels on nesting" for all syscalls. Add the
41st symlink to your chain in testcase ;-)
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