VFS: move BUG_ON test for symlink nd->depth after current->link_count test
authorErez Zadok <ezk@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Sat, 21 May 2011 05:19:59 +0000 (01:19 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 May 2011 07:12:16 +0000 (00:12 -0700)
This solves a serious VFS-level bug in nested_symlink (which was
rewritten from do_follow_link), and follows the order of depth tests
that existed before.

The bug triggers a BUG_ON in fs/namei.c:1381, when running racer with
symlink and rename ops.

Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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