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vfs: don't BUG_ON() if following a /proc fd pseudo-symlink results in a symlink

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It's "normal" - it can happen if the file descriptor you followed was
opened with O_NOFOLLOW.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds 2013-03-08 09:03:07 -08:00
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@ -689,8 +689,6 @@ void nd_jump_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path)
nd->path = *path;
nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;
nd->flags |= LOOKUP_JUMPED;
BUG_ON(nd->inode->i_op->follow_link);
}
static inline void put_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *link, void *cookie)