From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 21:37:07 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: namei: lift link_path_walk() call out of trailing_symlink()
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.3/legacy-v2-signed~213^2~42
X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3bdba28b72f5d2e7f3df031b04008b9a6fbdc775;p=pandora-kernel.git

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 <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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