From 7b54c165a0c012edbaeaa73c5c87cb73721eb580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:03:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] vfs: don't BUG_ON() if following a /proc fd pseudo-symlink results in a symlink It's "normal" - it can happen if the file descriptor you followed was opened with O_NOFOLLOW. Reported-by: Dave Jones Cc: Al Viro Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/namei.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 961bc1268366..57ae9c8c66bf 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -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) -- 2.39.5