From 4693a547cded42807ec468947b4d5287f2cb6aa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 17:47:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] namei: new calling conventions for walk_component() instead of a single flag (!= 0 => we want to follow symlinks) pass two bits - WALK_GET (want to follow symlinks) and WALK_PUT (put_link() once we are done looking at the name). The latter matters only for success exits - on failure the caller will discard everything anyway. Suggestions for better variant are welcome; what this thing aims for is making sure that pending put_link() is done *before* walk_component() decides to pick a symlink up, rather than between picking it up and acting upon it. See the next commit for payoff. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Reading git-format-patch failed