From 894bc8c4662ba9daceafe943a5ba0dd407da5cd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 07:16:16 -0400
Subject: namei: remove restrictions on nesting depth

The only restriction is that on the total amount of symlinks
crossed; how they are nested does not matter

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 include/linux/namei.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include/linux/namei.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index a5d5bed2c0e1..3a6cc9651712 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ struct nameidata;
 
 enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 8 };
 
+#define MAXSYMLINKS 40
+
 /*
  * Type of the last component on LOOKUP_PARENT
  */
-- 
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