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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-04-30 20:08:02 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-05-10 22:19:51 -0400
commitd4dee48badbb7ccd740087321518abcc870eda65 (patch)
treeaca840f709fd054b3143bb1f425394b5113535ca /fs/namei.c
parentnamei.c: separate the parts of follow_link() that find the link body (diff)
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namei: don't bother with ->follow_link() if ->i_link is set
with new calling conventions it's trivial Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Conflicts: fs/namei.c
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c20
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index a1ba5561daef..2ffb4afb250a 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -865,11 +865,14 @@ get_link(struct path *link, struct nameidata *nd, void **p)
nd->last_type = LAST_BIND;
*p = NULL;
- res = inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, p, nd);
- if (IS_ERR(res)) {
+ res = inode->i_link;
+ if (!res) {
+ res = inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, p, nd);
+ if (IS_ERR(res)) {
out:
- path_put(&nd->path);
- path_put(link);
+ path_put(&nd->path);
+ path_put(link);
+ }
}
return res;
}
@@ -4418,11 +4421,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(readlink_copy);
int generic_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int buflen)
{
void *cookie;
- const char *link = dentry->d_inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, &cookie, NULL);
+ const char *link = dentry->d_inode->i_link;
int res;
- if (IS_ERR(link))
- return PTR_ERR(link);
+ if (!link) {
+ link = dentry->d_inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, &cookie, NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(link))
+ return PTR_ERR(link);
+ }
res = readlink_copy(buffer, buflen, link);
if (cookie && dentry->d_inode->i_op->put_link)
dentry->d_inode->i_op->put_link(dentry, cookie);