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VFS: Make link_path_walk set LOOKUP_CONTINUE before calling permission().

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This will allow nfs_permission() to perform additional optimizations when
 walking the path, by folding the ACCESS(MAY_EXEC) call on the directory
 into the lookup revalidation.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Trond Myklebust 2005-10-18 14:20:18 -07:00
parent 6f926b5ba7
commit cdce5d6b94
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@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ static fastcall int __link_path_walk(const char * name, struct nameidata *nd)
struct qstr this;
unsigned int c;
nd->flags |= LOOKUP_CONTINUE;
err = exec_permission_lite(inode, nd);
if (err == -EAGAIN) {
err = permission(inode, MAY_EXEC, nd);
@ -815,7 +816,6 @@ static fastcall int __link_path_walk(const char * name, struct nameidata *nd)
if (err < 0)
break;
}
nd->flags |= LOOKUP_CONTINUE;
/* This does the actual lookups.. */
err = do_lookup(nd, &this, &next);
if (err)