In NFSv4, there is no hard limit on the length of symlink text.
This patch changes the -ENAMETOOLONG test in nfs_symlink() accordingly.
--- old/fs/nfs/dir.c Sun Aug 11 20:26:56 2002
+++ new/fs/nfs/dir.c Sun Aug 11 20:28:25 2002
@@ -1022,15 +1022,15 @@ nfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct de
struct nfs_fattr sym_attr;
struct nfs_fh sym_fh;
struct qstr qsymname;
- unsigned int maxlen;
int error;
dfprintk(VFS, "NFS: symlink(%s/%ld, %s, %s)\n", dir->i_sb->s_id,
dir->i_ino, dentry->d_name.name, symname);
error = -ENAMETOOLONG;
- maxlen = (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version==2) ? NFS2_MAXPATHLEN : NFS3_MAXPATHLEN;
- if (strlen(symname) > maxlen)
+ if (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version == 2 && strlen(symname) > NFS2_MAXPATHLEN)
+ goto out;
+ else if (NFS_PROTO(dir)->version == 3 && strlen(symname) > NFS3_MAXPATHLEN)
goto out;
#ifdef NFS_PARANOIA