From 3bdba28b72f5d2e7f3df031b04008b9a6fbdc775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 17:37:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] namei: lift link_path_walk() call out of trailing_symlink() Make trailing_symlink() return the pathname to traverse or ERR_PTR(-E...). A subtle point is that for "magic" symlinks it returns "" now - that leads to link_path_walk("", nd), which is immediately returning 0 and we are back to the treatment of the last component, at whereever the damn thing has left us. Reduces the stack footprint - link_path_walk() called on more shallow stack now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Reading git-format-patch failed