From fe2d35ff0d18a2c93993b0d7d46f846ff4331b72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 22:58:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] switch non-create side of open() to use of do_last() Instead of path_lookupat() doing trailing symlink resolution, use the same scheme as on the O_CREAT side. Walk with LOOKUP_PARENT, then (in do_last()) look the final component up, then either open it or return error or, if it's a symlink, give the symlink back to path_openat() to be resolved there. The really messy complication here is RCU. We don't want to drop out of RCU mode before the final lookup, since we don't want to bounce parent directory ->d_count without a good reason. Result is _not_ pretty; later in the series we'll clean it up. For now we are roughly back where we'd been before the revert done by Nick's series - top-level logics of path_openat() is cleaned up, do_last() does actual opening, symlink resolution is done uniformly. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Reading git-format-patch failed