Re: [PATCH] vfs: Fix O_NOFOLLOW behavior for paths with trailing slashes [LWN.net]

From:		Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>
To:		Jan Kara <jack-AT-suse.cz>
Subject:		Re: [PATCH] vfs: Fix O_NOFOLLOW behavior for paths with trailing slashes
Date:		Thu, 13 May 2010 08:24:59 -0700 (PDT)
Cc:		LKML <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.org, stable-AT-kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>, Al Viro <viro-AT-zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, 13 May 2010, Jan Kara wrote:
>
> According to specification
> mkdir d; ln -s d a; open("a/", O_NOFOLLOW | O_RDONLY)
> should return success but currently it did return ELOOP. Fix the code to ignore
> O_NOFOLLOW in case the provided path has trailing slashes. This is a regression
> caused by path lookup cleanup patch series.
> 
> CC: stable@kernel.org

Hmm? Is this correct? Isn't the bug introduced in this merge window, and 
thus not relevant for stable?

		Linus

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